TY - JOUR
T1 - The Nebraska interprofessional education attitudes scale
T2 - A new instrument for assessing the attitudes of health professions students
AU - Beck Dallaghan, Gary L.
AU - Lyden, Elizabeth
AU - Meza, Jane
AU - Stoddard, Hugh
AU - Bevil, Catherine
AU - Collier, Dean
AU - Winnicki, Margaret
AU - Nickol, Devin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 .
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Background: 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.
AB - Background: 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.
KW - Attitudes
KW - Interprofessional education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.xjep.2016.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.xjep.2016.05.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978040253
SN - 2405-4526
VL - 4
SP - 33
EP - 39
JO - Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice
JF - Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice
ER -