Interprofessional education through case conferences: Enhancing collaborative skills in psychiatric discharge planning.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To examine within-group pre-post changes associated with a structured interprofessional education (IPE) intervention among occupational therapy (OT), mental health social work (MHSW), and nursing (NS) students in Japan, with a focus on psychiatric discharge planning for long-term inpatients with schizophrenia.

Methods

We used a one-group pretest-posttest (quasi-experimental) design. Senior-year OT, MHSW, and NS students formed interprofessional teams to develop discharge support plans for a simulated long-term psychiatric inpatient. The Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS; n = 194) and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS; n = 134) were administered immediately before and after the case conference. Linear mixed-effects mo

SUBMITTER: Nakamura Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12481829 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature