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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">274</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2024.40701</article-id>
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      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Psychiatry</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Communication Skills and Academic Performance of Medical Students in Medina&#13;
</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Elsayed</surname>
            <given-names>Hanan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Aljohani</surname>
            <given-names>Rehab Hejji</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alrehely</surname>
            <given-names>Maram Salamah</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Almouteri</surname>
            <given-names>May Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alraddadi</surname>
            <given-names>Samah Faisal</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alharbi</surname>
            <given-names>Daliah Mubarak</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alhusseini</surname>
            <given-names>Safaa Hammad</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <fpage>222</fpage>
      <lpage>231</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Background: Emotional intelligence (EI) is defined as the ability to monitor emotions, guide behavior and thinking, and control and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments and achieve goals. EI has been associated with improved doctor-patient relationships and enhanced academic achievement.&#13;
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Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted of 388 fifth- and sixth-year medical students and interns at Taibah University and Al-Rayan Colleges in Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), in the 2021–2022 academic year. The data collection tools consisted of a consent form and three questionnaires. The first questionnaire served to obtain the participants’ demographic data and grade point average (GPA), the second was the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT), and the third was the Communication Skills Attitude Scale (CSAS).&#13;
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Results: Of 621 eligible students at the two institutions, 388 (62.5%) completed the questionnaires. The results demonstrate a strongly significant positive correlation between EI and the total and positive communication skill attitude scores among the fifth- and sixth-year medical students and medical interns who participated and indicated that EI and communication skills scores were independent of GPA, study year, gender, and age.&#13;
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Conclusions: A positive relationship between communication skills and EI is reported. The higher EI and communication skills scores were observed regardless of the participants’ GPA, study year, gender, or age. Further study is needed to determine how communication skills and EI affect academic performance.&#13;
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      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>academic performance</kwd>
        <kwd> emotional intelligence</kwd>
        <kwd> communication skills</kwd>
        <kwd> medical students</kwd>
        <kwd> interns </kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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