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ABSTRACT
Understanding of the processes associated with socialization into collaborative work plays an important role in interprofessional education and collaborative practice. In order to evaluate changes in socialization toward interprofessional collaborative practice a measure is needed that captures professional beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of individuals in learning activities and in workplace practice. This article presents the translation and psychometric properties of the German Version of the Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale (ISVS-21). Following translation from English to German, data of the German version of the questionnaire (ISVS-21-D) was collected in six different interprofessional education and practice settings amongst undergraduate students and health professionals. In total, 494 responses were analyzed. Results showed high reliability with Cronbach’s alpha .90. Although not all fit indices are in the desired range, results give preliminary indication of the underlying single factor of the ISVS-21-D and suggest that the German version of the ISVS-21-D is a reliable instrument that can be used to measure interprofessional socialization in German health professionals and health care students as well as within other disciplines.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Theresa Scherer [TS] and Godela Doenges [GD] who performed the forward translation and its reconciliation process, Anchal Puri [AP] who collaborated on the back translation and its reconciliation. Thanks also go to Alexandra Nest and Pascal Berberat, Munich and to Katrin Kunze, Osnabrueck for providing their data for analysis.
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Cornelia Mahler
Cornelia Mahler M.A. RN is Director of the Department of Nursing Science, University of Tuebingen, Germany. She leads the Bachelor of Nursing program at the Medical Faculty which was inaugurated 2018. She was head of the Bachelor program “Interprofessional Health Care” in Heidelberg, Germany from 2011-2018 and founding member of the working group “Interprofessional Education” in the German Association for Medical Education (GMA). Her research interests include interprofessional education and patient-centred collaborative practice as well as complementary and integrative nursing interventions, medication safety and role and competency development within nursing.
Carole Orchard
Carole Orchard, EdD is currently Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the former Coordinator of Interprofessional Health Education & Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on interprofessional client-centred collaborative practice. Dr. Orchard and her colleagues have developed several measurement instruments: Interprofessional Socialization & Valuing Scale (ISVS) and the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale-II (AITCS-II for practitioners), AITCS-II for students, and the Interprofessional Collaborative Leadership Scale (AICLS), A new measure the AITCS-II (students) is specifically for assessing collaboration in IP students during group learning.
Sarah Berger
Sarah Berger MN(Hons) MBA BA RN completed her doctoral research in medical education with a focus on collaborative decision-making in groups. Other research interests include professionalism in health care, regulatory frameworks, codes of conduct/ethics and interprofessional education and collaboration.
Johannes Krisam
Johannes Krisam is a biostatistician at the Institute of Medical Biometry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. He currently leads the working group Clinical Trials of the institute and has a long-standing expertise in the planning, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials, and has also been conducting methodological research in the field of clinical trials. Further research interests are statistical modeling of complex data structures.
Johanna Mink
Johanna Mink is a research fellow and doctoral student at the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. Her fields of study are interprofessional education and collaboration. Further research interests are technology and digitalization in nursing, competency development, socialization and role clarification of pre- and post-graduate health care professionals.
Katja Krug
Katja Krug is a Research Fellow at the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg. She studied Psychology (Dipl.) and Statistics (B. Sc.). Her research is focused on health care issues of caregivers and patients at the end of life. Other research interests include quality of life (assessment), interprofessional education, and development of assessment instruments.
Gillian King
Gillian King, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Senior Scientist (Bloorview Research Institute), Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (University of Toronto), and Canada Research Chair in Optimal Care for Children with Disabilities (Tier 1). Her research interests include the participation of children with disabilities, youth transitions, client and parent wellness, and client engagement. Her current research focuses on developing measures of engagement in therapy; the key elements and processes underlying the effectiveness of youth transition programs; mental health and the participation of children and youth with disabilities; and the role of resiliency in rehabilitation service delivery.