Physiotherapy is challenged to be a profession with competences in humanized skills and aptitudes. Higher Education has recently emphasized the need to integrate sustainable soft skills learning and humanistic education into curricula in order to improve the quality of future healthcare professionals. Our objective, validate psychometrically the CIBISA scale in the area of physiotherapy through a pilot study in students of the Degree of Physiotherapy. A Delphi method was used in two rounds and a focus group was convened to achieve consensus on the adaptation of the CIBISA nursing scale to physiotherapy. For the psychometric validation of the CIBISA-F scale, the data collection instruments were the adapted CIBISA-F scale and two more validated scales related to soft skills. The scales were answered by 25 students at three different times, two before the start of the clinical placements and one after. The results showed high Internal consistency (α=0.911), adequate reliability according to with the Brand-Altman plot, construct validity and sensitivity to change by comparison with other tools. The results of the present study suggest that the version of the CIBISA-F scale is a useful and reliable tool for measuring humanization skills in healthcare in physiotherapy students' during their clinical placements.

Physiotherapy is challenged to be a profession with competencies in humanized skills and aptitudes. The need to integrate the learning of sustainable soft skills and humanistic education into higher education curricula has recently been emphasized to improve the capabilities of future healthcare professionals. Our objective was to psychometrically evaluate the Invisible Care, Well-being, Security, and Autonomy (CIBISA) scale in the context of physiotherapy through a pilot study involving students undertaking a degree in physiotherapy. The Delphi method was used over two rounds, and a focus group was convened to achieve a consensus on the adaptation of the CIBISA nursing scale to assess physiotherapy (CIBISA-F). For the psychometric validation of the CIBISA-F scale, the data-collection instruments used were the adapted CIBISA-F scale and two more validated scales related to soft skills. The scales were answered by 25 students at three different times, twice before the start of the clinical placements and once after. The results showed high internal consistency (α = 0.911), adequate reliability according to a Brand–Altman plot, and an adequate construct validity and sensitivity in comparison to other tools. The results of the present study suggest that this version of the CIBISA-F scale is a useful and reliable tool for measuring humanization skills in healthcare and physiotherapy students during their clinical placements, ensuring high-quality education.