FITRI’s four steps in developing primary health cares’ interprofessional collaborative: an intervention for fostering IPCP competencies

ABSTRACT

It is important to fill the gaps in collaborative practice due to the lack of the healthcare professionals’ ability to work in collaboration with other disciplines. However, the current team training does not routinely address this important issue. This study aimed to identify how interactive interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) learning materials in a virtual course and community implementation called FITRI’s four steps in developing primary health cares’ interprofessional collaborative practice can be used in primary healthcare settings to address IPCP competencies of healthcare providers. This research was a quasi-experimental study with an untreated control group design using a dependent pretest and posttest sample. A purposive sample of 50 primary healthcare providers consisting of general physicians, dentists, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists were nonrandomly divided into the control and intervention groups. This study showed that IPCP competencies measured by the Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) in the intervention group were significantly higher after the training and implementation than before. The Mann–Whitney tests indicated that IPCP competencies were better in the intervention group than the control group. Based on effect size analysis, the intervention had a very strong impact and could significantly improve the participants’ competencies, especially in the collaborative patient/client-family centered approach domain. The FITRI’s four steps in developing primary health cares’ interprofessional collaborative practice can be implemented and provide positive impacts in primary healthcare settings to improve and foster competencies of IPCP in primary healthcare.

KEYWORDS:

• Community-based training
• interprofessional collaborative practice
• primary healthcare
• teamwork

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We declared no potential conflicts of interest with the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article

Ethical considerations

Ethical approval was received from the Research Ethics Committee with protocol number 914/UN6.KEP/EC/2020. To address ethical considerations, recruitment of participants was voluntary and there was no impact from their grades in any manner. Also, anonymity of all participants was maintained, and the control group was given the IPCP module in the end of the research for equality of information access between the intervention and control groups.

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