TSS: Team Skills Scale

Submitted by National Center... on Nov 4, 2013 - 10:57am CST

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Tool

TSS was developed to measure three factors of perceived interprofessional team skills: interpersonal skills, discipline-specific skills, and geriatric care skills.

The Team Skills Scale is a 17-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interprofessional team skills. This tool has 1 subscale: team skills (Miller and Ishler, 2001).

TSS is often used in conjunction with ATHCT.

Reference	Grymonpre, R., van Ineveld, C., Nelson, M., Jensen, F., De Jaeger, A., Sullivan, T., Weinberg, L., Swinamer, J., and Booth, A. (2010). See it – Do it – Learn it: Learning interprofessional collaboration in the clinical context. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education, 1(2), 127-144.
Tool Description	The Team Skills Scale is a 17-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interprofessional team skills. This version of the Team Skills tool has 3 subscales: interprofessional skills, discipline-specific skills, and geriatric care skills (Grymonpre et al., 2010)
Country	Canada
Setting	University
Professions	Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy
Sample	32 intervention and 11 control students from 5 disciplines.
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	interpersonal skills	Reported in Hepburn 1998, 2002
	discipline-specific skills	Reported in Hepburn 1998, 2002
	geriatric care skills	Reported in Hepburn 1998, 2002
Contact	grymonpr@ms.umanitoba.ca

Reference	Miller, B. K., and Ishler, J. K. (2001). The rural elderly assessment project: A model for interdisciplinary team training. Occupational Therapy in Healthcare, 15(3/4), 13-34. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	The Team Skills Scale is a 17-item tool with a 5-point scale that is used to assess interprofessional team skills. This tool has 1 subscale: team skills (Miller and Ishler, 2001).
Country	United States
Setting	Hospital
Professions	Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant and Public Health
Sample	25 students from 4 disciplines
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	Team skills	Internal consistency. Cronbach's α = .95
Contact	bkoppmiller@mco.edu