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Aga Khan University

Section of Dental-Oral Maxillofacial Surgery

2021

Validation of scale

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Development And Validation Of Scale For Self Evaluation Of Soft Skills In Postgraduate Dental Students, Muhammad Haseeb, Muhammad Waheed Azfar, Myra Ahmed, Amina Tariq, Muhammad Sohaib Nawaz, Ali Sadiq Jan 2021

Development And Validation Of Scale For Self Evaluation Of Soft Skills In Postgraduate Dental Students, Muhammad Haseeb, Muhammad Waheed Azfar, Myra Ahmed, Amina Tariq, Muhammad Sohaib Nawaz, Ali Sadiq

Section of Dental-Oral Maxillofacial Surgery

Objective: To develop and validate a soft skills questionnaire, and to use it for self-evaluation by postgraduate dentistry students.
Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at University College of Dentistry, , University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, from February 2020 to April 2020 and comprised of residents from first to final year of training for either Masters in Dental Surgery or Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan programmes. A soft skills questionnaire was generated and was validated through exploratory factor analysis of the elements and items of the questionnaire using SPSS 23.
Results: Of the 60 subjects, …