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9. Attitude and Perception of Health Professional Students Toward Inter-professional Education in Riyadh: Cross-Sectional Study

Ali Qassim Darraj

ABSTRACT

Objective: To evaluate the attitude and awareness of undergraduate health professional students regarding
inter-professional education, by using two validated assessment tools RIPLS and IPAS.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Colleges of Medicine and Applied Medical Sciences in Shaqra University (SU), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from January 2022 to June 2022.

Materials and Methods: A survey based study was conducted with 102 final year of health professional students within five academic health science programs at Shaqra University (SU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The RIPLS tool consists of 19 items, while IPAS tool contains 22 items were used to collect data regarding attitude and awareness toward shared education. Data were analyzed and interpreted with SPSS version 21. P value ≤ 0.05 was taken as significant.

Results: A 102 survey distributed, 72 were returned (response rate = 70.5%). A total of 72 subjects were recruited for our study. In this study we found that Cronbach’s alpha for Inter-professional learning scale (RIPLS) and
Inter-professional Attitude Scale (IPAS) was 0.84 and 0.88 respectively. A positive correlation was found between total RIPLS and total IPAS scores with Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.76 (P < 0.05).  We found a statistically significant relationship between ethics construct within IPAS scale and field of study (P = 0.031).

Conclusion: The participants' responses were primarily positive for most of the items of the two scales, either the RIPLS or IPAS scales have discriminatory ability to detect attitude and perception of health professional students toward Inter-professional education.

Key Words: Inter-professional education (IPE), readiness for inter-professional learning scale (RIPLS),
Inter-professional Attitudes Scale (IPAS), healthcare education

Citation of article: Darraj AQ. Attitude and Perception of Health Professional Students Toward
Inter-professional Education in Riyadh: Cross-Sectional Study Med Forum 2023;34(2):40-45.