Training in social abilities: a learning and teaching method to develop interpersonal communication abilities in the infirmary area.

The present study is an experience about the validity of the training in so cial abilities in the area of attention to patient in the field of infirmar y. The study has been carried out with an experimental procedure in which h as been used two groups of nursing students, one of them figured as control group. Both groups had the same level of interpersonal communication. Expe rimental group was subjected to a process of training in social abilities w ith the purpose of improving their talkative capacity. After several months they underwent the same test of social abilities again (Multidimensional o f Social Expression Climbs) and influence of the training received on the p arr of the experimental group was confirmed, in the sense of obtaining this a significant difference regarding the group control.