Interprofessional collaboration in pre-anaesthesia assessment: exploring provider-s knowledge, attitude, and behaviours
Else Agustina1,2 Viera Wardhani2 Asti Melani Astari3
1 Rumah Sakit Umum Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang East Java, Indonesia
2 Post Graduate Program in Hospital Management, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Brawijaya, Malang East Java, Indonesia
3 School of Nursing Faculty of Medicine Universitas Brawijaya, Malang East Java, Indonesia
Abstract
Pre-anaesthesia assessment has a pivotal role to ensure safe surgery which needs a strong interprofessional collaborative practice among care providers. This research aims to explore the interprofessional collaboration knowledge, attitude, and behaviour among care providers when performing pre-anaesthesia assessment. A survey using closed-ended questionnaires was carried out with 80 respondents (67 nurses, and 13 specialist physicians) in a private hospital with 130 beds. A descriptive and path analysis was performed. In general care providers showed a relative good interprofessional collaboration attitude (75.45), and behaviours (77.92) but a lack understanding of pre-anaesthesia assessment (50.95) and interprofessional collaboration (68.17) was revealed. While the overall attitude score was good, a weakness was noted in the physician-s autonomy dimension (50.88). The lowest score of behaviours was found in isolation dimension (73.00). The path analysis found no significant correlation between knowledge and behaviours but has a low negative correlation with attitude. The attitude itself has a significant negative association with behaviours even though the models only explain 22% variation in interprofessional collaboration. Care providers need to have better understanding related to interprofessional collaboration in pre-anaesthesia assessment, even though knowledge and attitude do not show a significant correlation to the interprofessional collaboration behaviours.
Keywords: pre-anaesthesia assessment, interprofessional collaboration, knowledge, attitude, behaviour
Topic: Quality, Safety and Service