Yuta Takahashi, Tomoyuki Shinohara, Ayumu Nagamine, Emiri Takahashi, Daisuke Kato, Mari Takeuchi, Yoko Koike, Kyoko Obayashi, Hideomi Watanabe
{"title":"Assessment of the modified attitudes toward health care teams scale using item response theory analysis.","authors":"Yuta Takahashi, Tomoyuki Shinohara, Ayumu Nagamine, Emiri Takahashi, Daisuke Kato, Mari Takeuchi, Yoko Koike, Kyoko Obayashi, Hideomi Watanabe","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2426724","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2426724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The modified Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale (mATHCTS) is a self-administered questionnaire with 14 items to assess participants' perceptions of the impact of interprofessional collaboration. Its validity and reliability have been widely evaluated. The effect of interprofessional education (IPE) has been evaluated using changes in mATHCTS factor scores. However, several aspects of the scale require clarification: the difficulty of correctly answering each item; how well each item discriminates between respondents' abilities; and whether the mATHCTS is better at identifying those with higher/lower abilities. We investigated the mATHCTS's item characteristics such as difficulty, discrimination, and measurement accuracy using item-response theory (IRT) analysis. Health and welfare university students were administered a questionnaire prior to starting IPE in 2021. The results for 180 participants were analyzed based on IRT. The test-response (TRF) and test-information (TIF) functions, discrimination, and difficulty were estimated. All items' discrimination and difficulty were adequate. The TRF, which shows the relationship between scores and ability, increased monotonically. The TIF, which shows the relationship between ability and measurement accuracy, decreased as the total score increased. The mATHCTS effectively assessed participants' attitudes toward health care teams as a one-dimensional ability. The mATHCTS performed well in identifying participants with relatively low scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"103-108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142631748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Daniela Costa Marion, Leonardo Costa Pereira, Diana Lucia Moura Pinho
{"title":"The effect of interprofessional simulation practice on collaborative learning: A randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Alexandra Daniela Costa Marion, Leonardo Costa Pereira, Diana Lucia Moura Pinho","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2022.2147153","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2022.2147153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the effect of simulation on readiness for collaborative practice and learning using a randomized-controlled trial design that used the same education protocol with interprofessional and uniprofessional groups. The sample consisted of 43 students from four different majors. The students were assessed with the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale, and a care plan measurement instrument. The interprofessional group showed a small increase (0.1 ± 0.43; p = .02) in readiness for teamwork and collaboration; the uniprofessional group showed a smaller increase for teamwork and collaboration (0.04 ± 0.31; p = .04) and for patient-centred care (0.0 ± 0.35; p = .01). The enriching work of interprofessional learning was evident within the care plan activity, suggesting that interprofessional simulation is an effective learning method for interprofessional education.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"14-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10494918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paige Pickerl, Dennis W Smithenry, Dale L Smith, Tanya Sorrell
{"title":"Team training for the interprofessional management of opioid use disorder with the ECHO model.","authors":"Paige Pickerl, Dennis W Smithenry, Dale L Smith, Tanya Sorrell","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2431922","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2431922","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Expanding workforce training opportunities for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment is a priority. We report on the impact of a 6-month-long team training program using the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model to scale an interprofessional education (IPE) intervention to primary care teams who offered medications for OUD treatment as part of their care plan. Thirteen healthcare teams participated in the program's first cohort. We studied 52 participants' pre-post responses to seven scales that examined individual efficacy, team efficacy, high performance teamwork behaviors, adaptive teamwork behaviors, ability to treat patients in two case examples, and stigma and harm reduction. Significant improvements occurred on six scales. Large effect sizes were observed for individual efficacy (<i>d</i> = 0.78), team efficacy (<i>d</i> = 1.25), and team's ability to treat patients (<i>d</i> = 0.77, <i>d</i> = 0.83). Moderate effect sizes were observed for high performance teamwork behaviors (<i>d</i> = 0.69) and adaptive teamwork behaviors (<i>d</i> = 0.57). Only stigma and harm reduction did not show a change. The training program delivered an IPE-ECHO intervention that was effective at increasing the teams' perceptions of their efficacy, functioning, and ability to treat patients. Future researchers should use objective measures to verify the team's perceptions of their increased ability to work together.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"134-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ira Malmberg-Heimonen, Anne Grete Tøge, Sehrish Akhtar
{"title":"Improving interprofessional collaboration in schools: A cluster-randomized study evaluating the effectiveness of the LOG model on collaboration practices.","authors":"Ira Malmberg-Heimonen, Anne Grete Tøge, Sehrish Akhtar","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2022.2149717","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2022.2149717","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although interprofessional collaboration is emphasized as important in schools, little is known about how it should be organized. We analyzed the effects of an organizational model of interprofessional collaboration, the LOG model. The model aims to improve interprofessional collaboration by identifying and improving various meeting places for collaboration, involving municipal school leaders, principals, staff, and interprofessional collaborators, and by increasing feedback from meeting places in and around schools. In a cluster-randomized design including 35 Norwegian primary schools, 19 schools were randomized to the experimental group and implemented the LOG model, and 16 were randomized to a control group. A total of 142 interprofessional collaborators (e.g., school nurses, social workers, and principals) received a questionnaire prior to randomization, with one- and two-year follow-up. Using a validated scale to measure interprofessional team collaboration, we evaluated the effects of the model on collaborators' perceptions in four dimensions: (a) Reflection on process, (b) Professional flexibility, (c) Newly created professional activities, and (d) Role interdependence. During the first, but not the second year of follow-up, the results demonstrated positive and statistically significant effects of the LOG model on the dimensions Reflection on process (<i>p</i>< .001) and Newly created professional activities (<i>p</i>= .016). Our findings demonstrate the potential of interventions addressing interprofessional collaboration at the organizational level.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"40-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10826329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interprofessional learning to integrate care: organic strategic and systemic responses for change.","authors":"Hugh Barr, Elizabeth S Anderson, Maggie Hutchings","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2405556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2024.2405556","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first of three articles, we scanned global and national sources to help understand the concept and scope of integrated care. New policy directives seek closer working relationships between health and social care systems and practitioners to tackle modern challenges relating to the ageing population, poverty, disadvantage, and mental health. We identified that the practitioner workforce has not been fully considered or prepared for large shifts in working practices, often bringing new practitioners' roles to address local needs in newly managed interprofessional working systems for integrated care. In this second article, we consider the major themes identified by our review of integrated care policy to explore their implications for interprofessional learning, drawing on developmental pathways for interprofessional education from organic to strategic and systemic responses, to ask in what ways we will need to prepare our learners for these new ways of delivering integrated care.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":"38 6","pages":"985-996"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142645056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Nielsen Hald, Mickael Bech, Ulrika Enemark, Jay Shaw, Viola Burau
{"title":"What makes communication work and for whom? Examining interprofessional collaboration among home care staff using structural equation modeling.","authors":"Andreas Nielsen Hald, Mickael Bech, Ulrika Enemark, Jay Shaw, Viola Burau","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2404640","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2404640","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Up to 175 conditions influencing interprofessional practices have been identified. Still, little is known about to what extent these conditions interact, influence communication, and vary across professional groups and settings. We explored these knowledge gaps by examining communication among staff in home care and home nursing units in two Danish municipalities, Herning and Holstebro. Conditions were categorized into two types (programme and context) and two levels (professional and organizational). Structural Equation Modeling was used with a sample of 395 staff and 21 managers to analyze the condition categories' interactions, influences on communication, and variations by unit type and municipality. Context conditions strongly influenced programme conditions on the professional and organizational levels. Organizational-level context conditions had no significant influence, organizational-level programme conditions had a weak influence, and professional-level programme and context conditions had moderate influences on communication. Lastly, professional-level programme conditions had the biggest influence on communication for staff in home care units and in Holstebro. In contrast, professional-level context conditions had the biggest influence on communication for staff in home nursing units and in Herning. These findings offer unique insights into conditions' interactions, influences, and variances, contributing to our understanding of what makes communication work and for whom.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"1050-1061"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allied health work readiness capabilities: a qualitative comparison of graduates, supervisors, and managers' perspectives.","authors":"Arlene Walker, Srivalli Vilapakkam Nagarajan, Poppy Orr, Rachel Elphinston, Michael Dunne, Lindy McAllister","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2406476","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2406476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have highlighted gaps in the work readiness (WR) of allied health (AH) graduates and the capabilities required to successfully work in an interprofessional collaborative practice healthcare environment. In the studies conducted, the focus has generally been on one AH discipline or on one participant group across disciplines, such as new graduates. We explored WR capability of new AH graduates across three participant groups (managers, supervisors, and graduates) and across several AH disciplines in the health sector. Focus groups using Critical Incident Technique (CIT) were conducted with 47 participants (14 new graduates, 13 supervisors, and 20 managers) from four public health organisations across Eastern Australia. CIT identified examples where new AH graduates had/did not have necessary WR capabilities to manage situations in the collaborative practice environment. Using thematic analysis, we found four main themes related to WR expectations of AH graduates (work skills and knowledge, working with others, personal attributes, and organisational knowledge), with several sub-themes. Some aspects of identified themes/sub-themes were unique to the AH interprofessional work context. Understanding of AH graduates' WR from multiple perspectives could support development of programs to enable graduate success in interprofessional working environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"1026-1034"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turkish translation and validation of an interprofessional identity measure: EPIS-TR.","authors":"Giray Kolcu, Mukadder İnci Başer Kolcu, Wim Krijnen, Jan-Jaap Reinders","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2403012","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2403012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on interprofessional identity using the Extended Professional Identity Theory (EPIT) has shown promising results in measuring this identity, predicting interprofessional collaboration, and improving team outcomes. However, EPIT-based interprofessional identity has not been studied in Türkiye due to the absence of a Turkish version of the Extended Professional Identity Scale (EPIS). We aimed to develop and validate a Turkish EPIS, the EPIS-TR, and explore interprofessional identities across eight different professions. A cross-cultural adaptation of EPIS was made by linguistic validation, followed by analysis of psychometric properties using a sample of students from four Turkish universities and eight professions/programs (<i>n</i> = 405). Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analyses were performed. Differences between professions were explored with ANOVA and a post hoc test. Three out of seven goodness-of-fit indices showed acceptable fit (x<sup>2</sup>/df = .004; RMSEA = .07; GFI = .94), and others showed excellent fit (SRMR = .04; AGFI = .91; CFI = .97; NNFI = .96). The internal consistency of the EPIS-TR is .93. The EPIS-TR scale has strong psychometric properties. The construct validity of the EPIS-TR was similar to that of the original version. The interprofessional identity scores of the different professions were mostly similar. Based on these findings, the EPIS-TR is well suited for measuring interprofessional identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"1117-1126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning about change and changing practice: the response for interprofessional education to integrated care.","authors":"Maggie Hutchings, Elizabeth Liz Anderson","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2425866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2024.2425866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":"38 6","pages":"971-973"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142645057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabrina Orta, Daniela Santos Cantu, Giuiseppe Allan Fonseca, Luis Torres-Hostos, Chelsea Chang
{"title":"A community-engaged interprofessional project led by medical students, school of social work students, and resident physicians: lessons learned and recommendations for success.","authors":"Sabrina Orta, Daniela Santos Cantu, Giuiseppe Allan Fonseca, Luis Torres-Hostos, Chelsea Chang","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2387589","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2024.2387589","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addressing health disparities through community engagement and interprofessional partnerships is increasingly critical. However, learner-led approaches that integrate medical students, resident physicians, and social work students are not well-studied. We designed a learner-led, interprofessional, public health campaign for a majority Hispanic community, with the goals of building interprofessional leadership skills, engaging learners to address COVID-19 inequities, and disseminating lessons learned. Faculty and students from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Schools of Medicine and Social Work partnered with community leaders to pilot an interprofessional project supported by the American Association of Medical Colleges' <i>Nurturing Experiences for Tomorrow's Community Leaders</i> (AAMC NEXT) Award. We describe the process of selection of a 12-member learner team of medical students, resident physicians, and social work students, and how we enacted the project from December 2020 to June 2021. Lessons learned in implementing our learner-led, community-engaged, interprofessional approach included: building interprofessional leadership skills, setting member roles and responsibilities, instilling requisite knowledge and skills, engaging with the community, and disseminating research findings. These lessons can guide other institutions seeking community-engaged interprofessional projects with learners.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"1008-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}