Preliminary testing of the Swedish version of the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS-S)

Figures & data

Table 1. Description of the study population (n = 349).

	n = 349
Gender, n (%)
Female	281 (81)
Male	67 (19)
Missing	1 (0)
Age, n (%)
≤30 years	21 (6)
31–49 years	158 (45)
≥50 years	167 (48)
Missing	3 (1)
Employer, n (%)
Public sector	226 (65)
Private sector	120 (34)
Missing	3 (1)
Occupation, n (%)
Occupational therapist	63 (18)
Physician	44 (13)
Psychologist	40 (12)
Physiotherapist	105 (30)
Other	93 (27)
Missing	4 (1)

Table 2. Subscale score and total scores for the AITCS.

	Partnership/shared decision-making	Cooperation	Coordination	AITCS-S total
Total group, mean (SD), n=349	4.43 (0.45)	4.46 (0.54)	4.10 (0.66)	4.38 (0.48)
Floor effect (%)	0	0	0	0
Ceiling effect (%)	4	18	8	2
Subgroup
Gender
Men, mean (SD), n=67	4.37 (0.48)	4.46 (0.57)	4.04 (0.73)	4.33 (0.51)
Women, mean (SD), n=281	4.44 (0.45)	4.46 (0.54)	4.12 (0.65)	4.39 (0.47)
Age
20–30 years, mean (SD), n=21	4.25 (0.53)	4.17 (0.75)	3.66 (0.90)	4.12 (0.63)
31–50 years, mean (SD), n=158	4.38 (0.48)	4.43 (0.55)	4.13 (0.64)	4.35 (0.49)
51 years, mean (SD), n=167	4.49 (0.40)	4.52 (0.50)	4.13 (0.64)	4.43 (0.43)
Workplace
Private sector, mean (SD), n=120	4.53 (0.43)	4.64 (0.48)	4.23 (0.64)	4.51 (0.44)
Public sector, mean (SD), n=226	4.37 (0.46)***	4.36 (0.56)***	4.04 (0.67)***	4.30 (0.48)***

Mann–Whitney U-tests were used for evaluating differences in AITCS scores between gender and workplaces, whereas Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to test for differences between age groups. No statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) were found between gender or age groups (although age groups approached statistical significance with figures between p = 0.054 to p = 0.067).

Due to missing information on the subgrouping variables, the total numbers of subjects in respective subgroup do not add up to 349.

SD: standard deviation.

*** p <0.001.

Table 3. Reliability analyses.

	Partnership/shared decision-making	Cooperation	Coordination	AITCS total
Internal consistency*	0.91	0.95	0.79	0.96
Test–retest**	0.78	0.79	0.77	0.83

*Cronbachs’s alpha coefficient was used to investigate the internal consistency.

**Intraclass correlation coefficient was used to investigate test–retest reliability.