Reliability and validity of the inter-professional collaboration practice instrument

Abstract

In a healthcare organization, teamwork is essential when there is a need to deal with different types of patients. The consistent collaboration between physicians and nurses daily will provide the best outcome for patients. Healthcare professionals need to understand the value of interprofessional collaboration to improve the effectiveness of healthcare organizations. Thus, this pilot study is conducted to examine the validity and reliability of the Inter-Professional Collaboration Practice survey instrument. The instrument measured nine constructs using a 5-Likert scale. A pilot test of the survey instrument was administered to 60 health professionals (nurses and doctors) from a selected teaching hospital in Malaysia. Both IBM SPSS Version 23 and SmartPLS softwares were employed to examine the reliability and validity of the survey instrument at this stage of the pilot study. The results indicate that IPCP instrument is a reliable and valid instrument to be used for actual data collection of this research study.