Avaliação da disponibilidade para aprendizagem interprofissional de estudantes dos cursos de saúde da universidade federal do Ceará

Abstract

Interprofessional education is an activity that involves two or more professionals who learn together in an interactive way to improve collaboration and the quality of health care. To assess the availability for interprofessional learning of students in health courses at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study. The representative sample for the Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Physiotherapy and Psychology courses at UFC was 340 students, but the questionnaire was disseminated among all students enrolled in these courses, thus obtaining a final sample of 419 participants. Data collection was carried out from April to September 2020. The research instrument used was the RIPLS (Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale) in the Portuguese version. The collected data were transferred to Excel and data analysis was performed using the SPSS statistical program (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 20.0, where descriptive statistical analysis was performed. The final sample was mostly composed of females (66.3%). Of this sample, 27% were from the Dentistry course, 16.2% from Nursing, 18.4% from Pharmacy, 11.7% from Medicine, 17.2% from Psychology and 9.5% from Physiotherapy. The highest prevalence of students in this study were from the initial and intermediate semesters (37.9% and 41.5%, respectively). The RILPS mean was 116.9. Regarding the students' course, there was a difference in the total average of the RILPS (p=0.02), the Medicine course had less availability for interprofessional learning (113.61) and Physiotherapy (119.98) had greater availability followed by of Nursing and Dentistry courses. The study demonstrated the high availability for interprofessional education among health students at UFC, especially with regard to patient-centered care. It pointed out the need to strengthen the development of competence for collaborative work in the Medicine course and the need to reflect the professional identity in the Psychology course as a health profession that works in an interprofessional way.