Do commencing nursing and paramedicine students differ in interprofessional learning and practice attitudes: Evaluating course, socio-demographic and individual personality effects Hallam, Karen, Livesay, K, Morda, R, Sharples, J, Jones, A and De Courten, M 2016, Do commencing nursing and paramedicine students differ in interprofessional learning and practice attitudes: Evaluating course, socio-demographic and individual personality effects, BMC Medical Education, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0605-5. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads hallam-docommencingnursing-2016.pdf Published version application/pdf 557.75KB 111 Title Do commencing nursing and paramedicine students differ in interprofessional learning and practice attitudes: Evaluating course, socio-demographic and individual personality effects Author(s) Hallam, Karen orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-5341 Livesay, K Morda, R Sharples, J Jones, A De Courten, M Journal name BMC Medical Education Volume number 16 Issue number 1 Article ID 80 Start page 1 End page 9 Total pages 9 Publisher BMC Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2016-03-03 ISSN 1472-6920 Keyword(s) Interprofessional education Health education Interprofessional practice Attitudes Nursing Paramedicine Personality Socio-demographic Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Education, Scientific Disciplines Socio demographic SELF-EFFICACY SOCIAL IDENTITY COMMUNICATION-SKILLS HEALTH-CARE EDUCATION INCREASES FRAMEWORK OUTCOMES ENGLISH Summary Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) requires health students to learn with, from and about each other in order to develop a modern workforce with client-centred care at its core. Despite the client centred focus of IPE, training programs often utilize standard approaches across student cohorts without consideration of discipline, sociodemographic and personality variability that attract students to different health disciplines. Knowing the students who engage in IPE to tailor training may prove as beneficial as knowing the client to delivered individualized client centred care in interprofessional practice (IPP). This research investigates whether students commencing undergraduate nursing and paramedicine degrees ener training with existing demographic and personality differences and, if these are associated with different attitudes towards health care teams and interprofessional education. Method: This online study recruited 160 nursing and 50 paramedicine students in their first week of their undergraduate course. Students completed questionnaires regarding their background, personality (General Perceived Self Esteem Scale, International Mini Markers) and the attitudes towards health care teams scale (ATHCTS) and interprofessional education perception scale (IEPS). Results: Results show that commencing nursing and paramedicine students are demographically different on education, gender, speaking a language other than English at home (LOTE) and their own experience with healthcare. The results further demonstrate that LOTE, discipline being studied and personality factors play a role in perceptions regarding interprofessional training whilst discipline being studied impacted on attitudes towards health care teams in the workforce. Conclusion: These results highlight a number of existing personal and psychological differences between individuals who choose to train in these selected professions. This suggests a need for tertiary education IPE programs to move towards tailoring their education to value this student diversity in the same client centred manner that students are asked to develop clinically. Language eng DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0605-5 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1117 Public Health and Health Services 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2016, Hallam et al. Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30141841 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Medicine Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 15:46:55 EST Sat, 12 Sep 2020, 05:04:00 EST Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 13:22:51 EST Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 10:12:38 EST Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 10:41:42 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 5 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 217 Abstract Views, 111 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 15:46:55 EST

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