"Smith's Patient-Centered Interview (PCI) is a methodology used by healthcare providers for obtaining health information from patients. Compared to traditional doctor-centered interview and treatment methods intended solely to obtain biomedical healthcare information, Smith's PCI was created as a methodology to obtain biopsychosocial information and considers open-ended communication skills to elicit patients' emotional and social stories in addition to physical symptom data which are obtained using doctor-centered skills. Research has shown that providers who use patient-centered skills have higher patient satisfaction ratings, and their patients show improved physical and psychological health and other individualized health outcomes. Additionally, previous research has shown that residents trained in the PCI rate their self-efficacy higher and score higher in demonstrated PCI skills than untrained residents. However, in previous studies, no significant relationship was found directly linking levels of provider self-efficacy and the subsequent levels of demonstrated PCI skills. The aim of the current study was to explore the influence of the timing of a perceived self-efficacy questionnaire and the duration of the training process. Research questions were presented regarding the effect of the questionnaire timing and training duration and the resulting levels of provider self-efficacy and demonstrated PCI skills. The findings suggest that the timing of the questionnaire does not influence subsequent self-efficacy ratings and that demonstrated PCI skills and perceived self-efficacy ratings increased significantly with duration of training."
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