Developing a Japanese version of the 'scale of attitudes toward pharmacist-physician collaboration'

• Published in: Journal of interprofessional care Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 920 - 926
• Main Authors: Kitahara, Kanayuki, Uchikura, Takeshi, Nio, Yuta, Katsuragi, Satoko, Okazaki, Keinosuke, Nishi, Yoshiko, Kawaguchi, Takashi, Yamaguchi, Takuhiro, Sasaki, Tadanori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis 02-11-2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Accountability; Attitudes; Authority; Collaboration; Drug stores; Interdisciplinary aspects; Interdisciplinary education; Interprofessional education; Japanese language; Medical students; Pharmacists; Pharmacology; Pharmacy; physician-pharmacist collaboration; Physicians; psychometric analysis; Quantitative psychology; Reliability; Responsiveness; Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Pharmacist Collaboration; interprofessional education; physician–pharmacist collaboration; psychometric analysis; Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician–Pharmacist Collaboration
• ISSN: 1356-1820; 1469-9567
• DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2020.1834369

There are many reports that pharmacotherapy has been optimized to ensure collaboration between physicians and pharmacists. Various scales assess the relationship between physicians and pharmacists as well as medical students and pharmacy students. The Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Pharmacist Collaboration (SATP
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C) can be applied not only to the physician-pharmacist relationship but also to the medical-pharmacy student relationship. As there is no Japanese version of the SATP
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C, we developed one and examined its psychometric properties. SATP
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C scores were measured before and after interprofessional education (IPE) to verify responsiveness. The scale showed confirmed reliability: Cronbach's alphas were 0.79 for Responsibility and Accountability, 0.68 for Shared Authority, and 0.67 for Interdisciplinary Education. Pre and post-IPE, each mean subscale score increased: Responsibility and Accountability, 0.7 ± 0.4; Shared Authority, 0.2 ± 0.3; and Interdisciplinary Education, 0.3 ± 0.2. Although the total score increased (1.2 ± 0.7), this was non-significant. The Japanese version of the SATP
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C can be considered, at least initially, to have reached an acceptable level of reliability and validity. The new measure is currently the only scale in Japan that can evaluate attitudes toward physician-pharmacist collaboration regarding IPE. Further studies are needed to confirm responsiveness pre- and post-IPE.