Investigation of the Validity and Reliability of Attitude Towards Inter-Professional Education (IPE) in Health Care

Abstract

DOI: 10.30699/acadpub.ijhehp.6.1.12 Background and Objective: Despite the acceptance of Inter-professional education (IPE) as an approach to improve the participation process among members of the health department, few studies have used valid and reliable tools to evaluate the attitude. This study aimed to provide a valid and reliable tool for investigating the attitude towards interprofessional education in health care. Methods: This study was conducted to evaluate the attitude towards IPE of 90 faculty members of Iran and Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. Initial instrumentcompromised 15 items, Likert typewas adopted from previous studies. Impact item score, content validity and content validity index were assessed by 10 participants and 10 experts respectively; construct validity was evaluated by using exploratory factor analysis. Reliability of the scale was evaluated by internal consistency calculation and with the test-retest.