Development of the Inner City attitudinal assessment tool (ICAAT) for learners across Health care professions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many health professions learners report feeling uncomfortable and underprepared for professional interactions with inner city populations. These learners may hold preconceptions which affect therapeutic relationships and provision of care. Few tools exist to measure learner attitudes towards these populations. This article describes the development and validity evidence behind a new tool measuring health professions learner attitudes toward inner city populations.

Methods

Tool development consisted of four phases: 1) Item identification and generation informed by a scoping review of the literature; 2) Item refinement involving a two stage modified Delphi process with a national multidisciplinary team (n = 8), followed by evaluation of readability and response proc

SUBMITTER: McKinney M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7059309 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature