The short version of students’ perceptions of interprofessional clinical education-revised (SPICE-R3): a confirmatory factor analysis

ABSTRACT

The Students’ Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education and its revision (SPICE, SPICE-R) were designed to understand medicine and pharmacy students’ perceptions of interprofessional education and collaborative practice in managing complex health problems. The SPICE-R authors, however, suggested for additional items for subscales “roles and responsibilities for collaborative care” and “patient outcomes from collaborative practice”. We added two items and introduced SPICE-R3 to differentiate it from the 10-item SPICE-R2 and to adapt the scale to a wider range of healthcare members. We administered the SPICE-R3 to healthcare students at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong in February 2020. Using data from 225 students from Chinese medicine, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, confirmatory factor analysis indicated nine items having acceptable item coefficients. Our data obtained a good fit to the three-factor, nine-item model suggesting construct validity. Results of the between-network analysis suggest that the three subscales of SPICE-R3 correlated systematically with other theoretically relevant variables in the nomological network suggesting convergent validity. The SPICE-R3 is a valid measure to examine Hong Kong healthcare students’ interprofessional attitudes in online interprofessional education even during the pandemic. Implications and directions for future research are provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Online interprofessional education
• validation
• confirmatory factor analysis

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Fraide A Ganotice

Fraide A. Ganotice, Jr. is the programme coordinator of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on understanding the factors that underpin the success of interprofessional education.

Kelvin Kai Hin Fan

Kelvin Kai Hin Fan is a research assistant at the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

Zoe Lai Han Ng

Zoe Lai Han Ng is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

Francis Hang Sang Tsoi

Francis Hang Sang Tsoi is a Senior Technical Officer at the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

Abraham Ka Chung Wai

Abraham Ka Chung Wai is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Emergency Medicine Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

Alan Worsley

Alan Worsley is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

Xiang Lin

Xiang Lin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

George L. Tipoe

George L. Tipoe is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Assistant Dean (Enrichment Year), LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. He is the Director of Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.