The Nebraska interprofessional education attitudes scale: A new instrument for assessing the attitudes of health professions students

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• 作者：Gary L. Beck Dallaghan ; PhD^a ; ^{gbeck@unmc.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Elizabeth Lyden ; MS^b ; Jane Meza ; PhD^b ; Hugh Stoddard ; MEd ; PhD^c ; Catherine Bevil ; EdD ; RN^d ; Dean Collier ; PharmD^e ; Margaret Winnicki ; MPH^f ; Devin Nickol ; MD^g
• 关键词：Interprofessional education ; Attitudes
• 刊名：Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：4
• 期：Complete
• 页码：33-39
• 全文大小：392 K

文摘

Interprofessional education (IPE) for health professions students can facilitate collaboration. Previous instruments to measure student attitudes about IPE were reported to lack psychometric and validity evidence.

Methods

The Nebraska Interprofessional Education Attitude Scale (NIPEAS) was developed to measure the attitudes of pre-clinical learners to practicing health professionals. The 19 item questionnaire was administered in 2012 to 370 students, in 2013 to 280 faculty, and in 2015 to 353 students.

Results

An exploratory factor analysis found that NIPEAS items loaded onto four factors: “Team approach to health care,” “Receptivity to teammates,” “Self-efficacy as a team member” and “Ethics in health care.” Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that the four-factor model for NIPEAS provided an adequate fit to the data.

Conclusions

The attitude scales in NIPEAS were derived from the IPEC competencies. NIPEAS appears to be useful for measuring attitudes about interprofessional collaboration of pre-service health professions students and health care providers.