Dominguez Daniel G, Fike David S, MacLaughlin Eric J, Zorek Joseph A
Graduate Program in Health Administration, University of the Incarnate Word , San Antonio, TX , USA .
J Interprof Care. 2015 Mar;29(2):144-9. doi: 10.3109/13561820.2014.947360. Epub 2014 Aug 7.
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.
随着卫生政策的不断发展和认证要求的提高，卫生专业教育项目越来越多地将跨专业教育（IPE）活动纳入课程，以突出跨专业协作实践（IPCP）的益处，并让学生为其做好准备。因此，需要有统计效度的工具来评估学生对IPE和IPCP的基线认知。本研究采用验证性因素分析，比较了修订后的21项《对医疗团队的态度》（ATHCT-R）工具和10项《跨专业临床教育学生认知修订版》（SPICE-R）工具的信度和结构效度。这些工具通过在线方式同时进行管理，共有221名护理学、验光、药学、物理治疗和卫生管理专业的一年级学生完成了调查。在本研究中，与ATHCT-R相比，SPICE-R在拟合优度、结构效度和信度方面表现更好。SPICE-R工具有望成为一种简洁、有效且可靠的工具，用于衡量卫生专业学生对IPE和IPCP的认知。
