Measuring teamwork and conflict among emergency medical technician personnel.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We sought to develop a reliable and valid tool for measuring teamwork among emergency medical technician (EMT) partnerships.

Methods

We adapted existing scales and developed new items to measure components of teamwork. After recruiting a convenience sample of 39 agencies, we tested a 122-item draft survey tool (EMT-TEAMWORK). We performed a series of exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test reliability and construct validity, describing variation in domain and global scores using descriptive statistics.

Results

We received 687 completed surveys. The EFAs identified a nine-factor solution. We labeled these factors 1) Team Orientation, 2) Team Structure & Leadership, 3) Partner Communication, Team Support, & Monitoring,

SUBMITTER: Patterson PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3233978 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature