Cross-cultural adaptation and validation to Brazil of the scale of attitudes toward physician-pharmacists collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the increasing complexity of medication therapies and the expansion of pharmaceutical clinical services to optimize patient care working in collaboration with physicians. In this sense, interdisciplinary education has been encouraged. However, no instrument is available to measure attitudes toward collaborative relationships.

Objective

To translate, cross-cultural adaptation and validation an instrument to measure collaboration attitudes toward students of medicine/pharmacy and physicians/pharmacists.

Methods

The process of cross-cultural adaptation was carried out using international recommendations and was performed from January 2014 to April 2015. The instrument under consideration was translated and re-translated. A panel of experts compared the

SUBMITTER: Cunha L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5499343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature