Adaptation of the interprofessional collaborative competency attainment scale for usage across professions

Abstract

Health and nursing professionals, not only in clinical environments but also in nursing homes or in the home environment, are increasingly influenced by digital technology, specifically in the smart home. Technology professionals in IT are affected as well: clients, but also the professionals acting on their behalf, depend on technological support and consultation, because they themselves need to make responsible decisions concerning issues such as data security. More broadly, it is necessary to enhance multidisciplinary perspectives to collaborate across technological and non-technological professions. Meeting this challenge requires educational interventions to promote multi-professional collaboration competencies. Research on enhancing these competencies requires measurement instruments. For this purpose, this paper describes the adaptation of a measurement instrument originating from interprofessional collaboration in health care, the ICCAS, and its translation for application in a German language context via the TRAPD method. The results of a pretest evaluating the comprehensibility of the items are reported.