ATHCT: Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale
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The Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams scale (ATHCT) was developed as a pre- and post- measure or longitudinal monitor of attitudes toward health care teams among team members and/or trainees and their supervisors in clinically based team training programs.
The Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 20-item tool that has the quality of care/process (14 items) and physician centrality (6 items) subscales on a 4-point scale. The quality of care/process subscale measures team members' perceptions of the quality of care delivered by health care teams and the quality of teamwork to accomplish this. The physician centrality subscale measures team members' attitudes toward physicians' authority in teams and their control over information about patients. It can be used to determine the effect of educational interventions for teams and evaluating practice-based team training programs for health care students and clinicians.
ATHCT is often used in conjunction with Team Skills Scale (TSS).
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Curran, V. R., Heath, O., Kearney, A., and Button, P. (2010). Evaluation of an interprofessional collaboration workshop for post‐graduate residents, nursing and allied health professionals. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24(3): 315–318. 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. |
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Tool Description |
This version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 14-item tool on the 5-point scale that can be used to determine the effect of interprofessional education on quality of care and teamwork. The 2 subscales for this tool are quality of care/process and cost of team care (Curran et al., 2010). |
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Country | Canada | |
Setting | University | |
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Nursing, Medicine, Social Work, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Psychology |
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137 students from several health disciplines |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care |
Internal consistency Cronbach's α = .83 |
costs of team care (time constraints) |
Internal consistency Cronbach's α = .83 |
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Reference | Forchuk, C., and Vingilis, E., (2008). Creating interprofessional collaborative teams for comprehensive mental health services – Final report. London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, Health Canada IECPCP Initiative. | |
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Tool Description |
Same as Leipzig et al. (2002) |
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Country | Canada | |
Setting | University and practice settings | |
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Undergraduate students, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Social Work and Psychology |
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Sample |
363 students and practitioners |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | team value |
Not reported |
team efficiency |
Not reported |
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physician's shared role on team |
Not reported |
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Contact |
Reference |
Curran, V. R., Sharpe, D., Forristall, J., and Flynn, K. (2008). Attitudes of health sciences students towards interprofessional teamwork and education. Learning in Health and Social Care, 7(3), 146‐156. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wiley Online Library may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
This version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 14-item tool on a 5-point scale that can be used to determine effect of interprofessional education on quality of care and teamwork. The 2 subscales for this tool are quality of care/process and time constraints (Curran et al., 2007). |
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Country | Canada | |
Setting | University | |
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Medicine (195), Nursing (762), Pharmacy (113) and Social Work (109) |
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Sample |
1179 students from 4 health disciplines |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care |
Cronbach's α = .83 |
time constraints |
Cronbach's α = .83 |
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Reference |
Curran, V. R., Sharpe, D., and Forristall, J. (2007). Attitudes of health sciences faculty members towards interprofessional teamwork and education. Medical Education, 41(9), 892‐896. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wiley Online Library may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
This version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 14-item tool on a 5-point scale that can be used to determine effect of interprofessional education on quality of care and teamwork. The 2 subscales for this tool are quality of care/process and time constraints (Curran et al., 2007). |
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Country | Canada | |
Setting | University | |
Professions |
Medicine (195), Nursing (762), Pharmacy (113) and Social Work (109) |
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Sample |
194 faculty from 4 health disciplines |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care |
Cronbach's α = .88 |
time constraints |
Cronbach's α = .88 |
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Contact |
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Reference |
Fulmer, T., Hyer, K., Flaherty, E., Mezey, M., Whitelaw, N., Jacobs, M. O., Luchi, R., Hansen, J. C., Evans, D. A., Cassel, C., Kotthoff-‐Burrell, E., Kane, R., and Pfeiffer, E. (2005). Geriatric interdisciplinary team training program: Evaluation results. Journal of Aging Health, 17(4), 443-‐470. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to SAGE Journals Online may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
Same as Leipzig et al. (2002) |
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Country | United States | |
Setting | Universities and teaching hospitals | |
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Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Dentistry, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Health Administration, Pastoral Counseling and Law |
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Sample |
537 postgraduate students |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | attitudes toward team value |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
attitudes toward team efficiency |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
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attitudes toward physician shared role |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
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Contact |
Reference |
Heinemann, G.D., Schmitt, M.H., and Farrell, M.P. Attitudes toward health care teams. In Heinemann, GD, and Zeiss, AM. (Eds.) Team performance in health care: Assessment and Development. (pp. 155-159). New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2002. PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, the full text of this book chapter cannot be made openly available through this website. |
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Leipzig, R. M., Hyer, K., Ek, K., Wallenstein, S., Vezina, M. L., Fairchild, S., Cassel, C.K., and Howe, J. L. (2002). Attitudes toward working on interdisciplinary healthcare teams: A comparison by discipline. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 50(6), 1141-‐1148. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Wiley Online Library may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
This modified version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 21-item tool with a 6-point scale that can be used to determine attitudes of health care students on interprofessional teamwork. The 3 subscales for this tool are team value, team efficiency and physician's shared role on team (Leipzig et al., 2002). |
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Country | United States | |
Setting | University | |
Professions |
Medicine (367), Nursing (135) and Social Work (89) |
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Sample |
591 postgraduate students from 20 disciplines |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | team value |
See Heinemann (1999) |
team efficiency |
See Heinemann (1999) |
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physician's shared role on team |
See Heinemann (1999) |
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Reference |
Hyer, K., Fairchil, S., Abraham, I., Mezey, M., and Fulmer, T. (2000). Measuring attitudes related to interdisciplinary training: Revisiting the Heinemann, Schmitt and Farrell attitudes toward health care teams' scale. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 14(3), 249-‐258. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
This modified version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 21-item tool with a 6-point scale that can be used to determine attitudes of health care students on interprofessional teamwork. The 3 subscales for this tool are: quality of care/process, costs of team care and physician centrality (Hyer et al., 2002). |
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Country | United States | |
Setting | University | |
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Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Dentistry, Therapy, Health Administration, Pastoral Counseling and Law |
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Sample |
913 students in geriatric interdisciplinary team training (GITT) |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care/process |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
costs of team care |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
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physician centrality |
Overall Cronbach's α = .87 For attitudes toward team value α = .85 For attitudes toward team efficiency α = .76 For attitudes toward physician shared role α = .75 |
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Reference |
Heinemann, G. D., Schmitt, M. H., Farrell, M. P., & Brallier, S. A. (1999). Development of an attitudes towards health care team scale. Evaluation & The Health Professions, 22(1), 123-142. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to SAGE Journals Online may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
The Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 20-item tool that has the quality of care/process (14 items) and physician centrality (6 items) subscales on a 4-point scale. The quality of care/process subscale measures team members' perceptions of the quality of care delivered by health care teams and the quality of teamwork to accomplish this. The physician centrality subscale measures team members' attitudes toward physicians' authority in teams and their control over information about patients. It can be used to determine the effect of educational interventions for teams and evaluating practice-based team training programs for health care students and clinicians (Heinemann et al., 1999). |
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Country | United States | |
Setting | Community and hospital settings | |
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Medicine, Social Work, Nursing, Audiology, Pastoral Counseling, Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Recreation Therapy, Speech Therapy, Optometry, Pharmacy, Podiatry and Psychology |
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Sample |
1018 interdisciplinary geriatric health care teams |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care/process |
Quality of Care: Internal consistency Cronbach's α: = .87 Test-retest correlation: r = .71 (p<.001) |
physician centrality |
Physician centrality: Internal consistency Cronbach's α = .75 Test-retest correlation, r = .36 (p<.05) |
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cost of care |
Costs of care: Internal consistency Cronbach's α = .72 Test-retest correlation, r = .42 (p<.05) |
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Construct Validity: Quality of care/process correlated with anomie (r = -.35, p<.001), cohesion (r = .25, p<.001) quality of communication (r = .35, p<.001), team effectiveness (r = .39, p<.001). Strength of correlations range from r = .08 to .13 | ||
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Brown, G. F. and Chamberlin, G. D. (1996). Attitudes toward quality, costs, and physician centrality in healthcare teams. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 10(1), 63-‐72. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. |
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Tool Description |
This version of the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale is a 20-item tool with a 5-point scale that can be used to determine attitudes toward quality, costs, and physician centrality in healthcare teams. The 2 subscales for this tool are quality of care/process and physician centrality (Brown and Chamberlin, 2002). |
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Country | United States | |
Setting | Hospital | |
Professions |
Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, Pharmacy |
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Sample |
200 health professionals from 4 disciplines |
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Subscale(s) & Psychometrics | quality of care/process |
See Heinemann (1988 & 1991) |
physician centrality |
See Heinemann (1988 & 1991) |
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