Psychometric evaluation of the culturally adapted interprofessional socialisation and valuing scale (ISVS)-19 for health practitioners and students in Indonesia

ABSTRACT

We aimed to develop a culturally appropriate psychometrically robust measure for assessing interprofessional socialization for health practitioners and students in Indonesia. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) were used as guidelines. Our study was organized in three phases (a) translation, (b) cross-cultural validation by evaluating the content validity and internal structure of the translated instrument (i.e. structural validity, internal consistency reliability, and measurement invariances), and (c) hypotheses testing for construct validity. A total of 266 health practitioners and 206 students from various professional backgrounds participated. The Indonesian ISVS-19 was confirmed unidimensional. Content validity evaluation confirmed the inclusion of relevant, understandable items and was comprehensive. Factor analysis supported removal of two items. Configural, metric, and scalar tests confirmed the invariance of the 1-Factor 19-Items model in practitioner and student cohorts. Age was a differentiating factor in both cohorts; length of work was only significant for practitioners, and educational background was significant for students (80% of assumptions were accepted, fulfilling COSMIN requirement for construct validity). The Indonesian ISVS-19 has good psychometric properties regarding content validity, internal structure, and construct validity and, therefore, is a psychometrically robust measure for assessing interprofessional socialization for health practitioners and students in Indonesia.

KEYWORDS:

• Confirmatory factor analysis
• interprofessional education
• interprofessional socialization
• measurement invariance
• psychometric evaluation
• unidimensional

Disclosure statement

The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2023.2285020

Additional information

Funding

This study is funded by the Australia Awards Scholarship and Curtin University Higher Degree Research Scholarship.

Notes on contributors

Bau Dilam Ardyansyah

Bau Dilam Ardyansyah, MD., MBSc., MHPE, is a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of Hasanuddin University and a PhD candidate at Curtin University Australia. She obtained her Master of Health Profession Education from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her areas of Interest include interprofessional education and collaborative practice, instrument psychometric evaluation, student learning and assessments, and curriculum development.

Reinie Cordier

Reinie Cordier is a Professor at the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, UK, the School of Allied Health, Curtin University, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has a track record of conceptualizing and testing the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for children with behavioural and emotional disorders. Theoretically, his main research interests lie at the intersections between health and social care and phenomena specific to different population groups. The overarching theme of his research is promoting the social inclusion of children with developmental disorders, developing evidenced-based psychosocial interventions, measurement, and instrument development.

Margo L Brewer

Margo Brewer is an Associate Professor at the School of Allied Health, Curtin University, Australia. She has held several academic leadership positions at Curtin University since 2002 and is currently the Director of Strategic Projects at the Curtin School of Allied Health. Her vital focal areas are interprofessional education, clinical education, student resilience and wellbeing, assessment, and academic leadership. She is an inaugural member of the Curtin Academy, the inaugural Interprofessional Education Lead for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, and the current Chair of the Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network.

Dave Parsons

Dave Parsons, PhD is a current Lecturer and Early Career Researcher in the School of Allied Health at Curtin University. He is also the Allied Health Research Lead at St John of God Public and Private Hospital, Midland. The role is responsible for building research skills, capacity, and culture within the Allied Health professions. Responsibilities include consulting and supporting allied health providers on their research projects, assisting with student supervision, providing advice and input into the hospital research strategy, and building relationships between professions (including medical and nursing staff) to drive high-impact research.