Occupational Therapy Students’ Test/Re-Test Reliability of the Readiness for Interprofessional Education Learning Scale and Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale

Interprofessional Identity Development: Awareness as the Beginning of Change

“…Mahler, Berger and Reeves [53], for instance, expect a risk for social desirability bias when early-stage undergraduates are unable to accurately respond to the questions, while McFadyen et al [72] believe this may explain the poor stability of the NPI and R&R subscales. Although further research is required to con rm the stability of our 8-item AIPLS, we believe this to be less of an issue considering the removal of the two subscales, whichbased on previous literature -also performed moderately to poorly in more advanced undergraduate students [55,59]. Furthermore, in view of discriminant validation, we con rmed the hypothesis that students without prior experience in terms of working in a healthcare setting or those who have not yet progressed to their Master's program would have signi cantly lower scores.…”

“…A rst strength is the step-by-step, transparent and pragmatic approach in validating and reconceptualizing the RIPLS through an integration of quantitative and qualitative methods, which has led to a short re nement relabeled as the AIPLS that was found to be valid, stable, relevant and practical to use across undergraduate health study programs. However, further testing of the AIPLS is advised in a heterogeneous crossdisciplinary population, as some of the subgroups in study programs such as BioMed were small and the sample for the test/retest reliability was limited to third-year Physio students [55,56]. A second strength is that the total mean scores between the RIPLS and AIPLS do not signi cantly differ, which presumably permits a comparison of results from previous studies reporting total scale means, although this must rst be empirically con rmed [54].…”

“…However, despite having long been a recommended instrument, researchers have increasingly questioned RIPLS use owing to several fundamental problems [52,53]. First, recurring reports of an overall high Cronbach's alpha (α) misleadingly give the impression of good internal consistency considering the poor alphas and retest reliability of two of its subscales and because α is an inappropriate measure to use for a multidimensional scale [54][55][56][57]. The various modi cations made throughout the years in which subscales have been relabeled and items have been added, rearranged or removed have further complicated the comparison, aggregation and interpretation of research results, especially when it is unclear whether total or subscale scores have been reported [58,59].…”