GRPQ: General Role Perception Questionnaire

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Tool

The Role Perception Questionnaire (RPQ) was developed to evaluate undergraduate healthcare students’ perceptions about the roles of other professions in interprofessional education. The GRPQ can be used to measure changes in role perception of a range of other professions.

The General Role Perception Questionnaire is a 20-item tool with a 10-point scale that is used to obtain views of the role of another profession. The GRPQ can be used to measure change in role perception of a range of other professions.

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

Reference	Mackay, S. (2004). The role perception questionnaire (RPQ): A tool for assessing undergraduate students' perceptions of the role of other professions. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 18(3), 289-302. 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 General Role Perception Questionnaire is a 20-item tool with a 10-point scale that is used to obtain views of the role of another profession. The GRPQ can be used to measure change in role perception of a range of other professions (Mackay, 2004).
Country	UK
Setting	University
Professions	Midwifery (15%), Occupational Therapy (34%), Physiotherapy (26%), Podiatry (13%), Prosthetics and Orthotics (35%) and Radiography (32%)
Sample	43 students from 9 disciplines
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	Roles of other professions	Test re-‐test reliability: correlation coefficient r = 0.7. Content validity verified through consultation with sample group
Contact	s.mackay@liverpool.ac.uk