A comparison of the validity of two instruments assessing health professional student perceptions of interprofessional education and practice

Abstract Health professional education programs increasingly incorporate interprofessional education (IPE) activities into curricula in response to evolving health policy and accreditation requirements in an effort to highlight the benefits of, and prepare students for, interprofessional collaborati...

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Published in:Journal of interprofessional care 2015-03, Vol.29 (2), p.144-149
Main Authors: Dominguez, Daniel G., Fike, David S., MacLaughlin, Eric J., Zorek, Joseph A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accreditation
Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel
Attitudes
Certification
confirmatory factor analysis
Cooperative Behavior
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Health Care Services
Health Personnel - education
Health Professions
Humans
instrument comparison
Interdisciplinary Approach
interprofessional education
Interprofessional Relations
Male
multi-disciplinary
Perception
Perceptions
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Student Attitudes
student perceptions
Students
Students, Health Occupations - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
United States
Validity
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Summary:Abstract Health professional education programs increasingly incorporate interprofessional education (IPE) activities into curricula in response to evolving health policy and accreditation requirements in an effort to highlight the benefits of, and prepare students for, interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). As such, there is a need for statistically valid instruments designed to assess baseline student perceptions regarding IPE and IPCP. Using confirmatory factor analysis, this study compared the reliability and construct validity of a revised 21-item Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams (ATHCT-R) instrument and a 10-item Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised (SPICE-R) instrument. The instruments were concurrently administered online and completed by a total of 221 first year nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and health administration students. In this study, the SPICE-R exhibited better performance in terms of goodness of fit, construct validity, and reliability compared with the ATHCT-R. The SPICE-R instrument demonstrates promise as a parsimonious, valid, and reliable tool for measuring health professional students' perceptions of IPE and IPCP.
ISSN:1356-1820
1469-9567
DOI:10.3109/13561820.2014.947360