The objectives of the study are to assess communication barriers, assess staff nurses’ attitude towards the importance of communication, to find out relationship between communication barriers and attitude of staff nurses, association between communication barriers perceived and selected demographic variables, association between attitude regarding importance of communication and selected demographic variables. The descriptive survey approach was used. Study was conducted among 100 staff nurses of various departments of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. Convenient sampling technique was used to select samples. 3 tools were used for data collection and they are demographic Performa, tool to assess the communication barriers, and attitude about the importance of communication among staff nurses in caring patients from culturally and linguistically diverse background. Content validity and reliability of tools were established.
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Savio et al. (2013) studied this question.