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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation to Brazil of the scale of attitudes toward physician-pharmacists collaboration.
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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 generated documents and the translation was evaluated for 20 undergraduate students of Pharmacy, 20 undergraduate students of Medicine and professionals (20 pharmacists and 20 physicians).Results
The process of cross-cultural translation and validation result in the Portuguese version. Modifications to the grammatical structures were made in order to establish a cross-cultural similarity between the English and Portuguese versions. Regarding the evaluation of the expert panel, six questions required modifications.Conclusions
Psychometric evaluation demonstrated and confirmed the validity of the Brazilian-Portuguese version to assess collaborative attitudes among pharmacists and physicians. Moreover, the scale can be used to evaluate undergraduates and postgraduates and foster the development of teaching methods that promote comprehensive attitudes in patient care.
SUBMITTER: Cunha L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5499343 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation to Brazil of the scale of attitudes toward physician-pharmacists collaboration.
Pharmacy practice 20170401 2
<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Objective</h4>To translate, cross-cultural adaptation and validation an instrument to measure collaboration attitudes toward students of medic ...[more]