AHPQ: Attitudes to Health Professional Questionnaire ©

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The Attitudes to Health Professions Questionnaire (AHPQ) was developed to determine attitudes of health professionals towards other health professions. AHPQ has been proposed to measure how these attitudes change over time and the effect of interprofessional education.

The Attitudes to Health Professional Questionnaire (AHPQ) is a 20-item tool that is used to determine attitudes of health professionals towards other health professions on both the caring and subservient scale. The tool can be used to measure the effect of interprofessional education on these attitudes. This tool uses a visual analogue scale with anchors at both ends.

PLEASE NOTE: The AHPQ tool itself is not available for download from this site. To request a copy, please contact the authors directly (see PDF below for details).

Reference	Agarwal, G., Idenouye, P., Hilts, L., and Risdon, C. (2008). Development of a program for improving interprofessional relationships through intentional conversations in primary care. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22(4), 432-435. 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 Attitudes to Health Professional Questionnaire (AHPQ) is a 20-item tool that is used to determine attitudes of health professionals towards other health professions on both the caring and subservient scale. The tool can be used to measure the effect of interprofessional education on these attitudes. This tool uses a visual analogue scale with anchors at both ends (Lindqvist et al., 2005).
Country	UK
Setting	University
Professions	Medicine, Nursing, Dietetics, Social Work, Health Adminstration, Education Assistants, Clinic Aides, Lactation Consultant and Pharmacy
Sample	64 students from 12 professional programs
Subscale(s) and Psychometrics	caring	See Lindqvist (2005)
Subscale(s) and Psychometrics	subservience	See Lindqvist (2005)
Contact	gina.agarwal@gmail.com

Reference	Lindqvist, S., Duncan, A., Shepstone, L., Watts, F., and Pearce, S. (2005). Development of the 'Attitudes to Health Professional Questionnaire' (AHPQ): A measure to assess interprofessional attitudes. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19(3), 269-79. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article.
Tool Description	The Attitudes to Health Professional Questionnaire (AHPQ) is a 20-item tool that is used to determine attitudes of health professionals towards other health professions on both the caring and subservient scale. The tool can be used to measure the effect of interprofessional education on these attitudes. This tool uses a visual analogue scale with anchors at both ends (Lindqvist et al., 2005).
Country	UK
Setting	University
Professions	Stage 1: Medicine (75), Nursing (58), Occupational Therapy (25), Physical Therapy (25) and Midwifery (7) Stage 2: Medicine (40), Nursing (38), Occupational Therapy (25), Physical Therapy (25), Midwifery (7) and Pharmacy (25)
Sample	Stage 1: 190 students Stage 2: 160 students
Subscale(s) and Psychometrics	caring	Internal consistency for revised 20-item questionnaire Cronbach's α = .87
	caring	Caring: Internal consistency α = .93
	subservience	Subservience: Internal consistency α = .58
Contact	s.lindqvist@uea.ac.uk