Informational role self-efficacy: a validation in interprofessional collaboration contexts involving healthcare service and project teams.
BACKGROUND
Healthcare professionals perform knowledge-intensive work in very specialized disciplines. Across the professional divide, collaboration becomes increasingly difficult. For effective teamwork and collaboration to occur, it is considered necessary for individuals to believe in their ability to draw on their expertise and provide what others need to perform their job well. To date, however, no instruments exist to measure such a construct.


METHODS
A two-study design is used to test the psychometric properties, factor structure and incremental validity of a five-item questionnaire measuring informational role self-efficacy.


RESULTS
Based on parallel analysis and exploratory factor analysis, Study 1 shows a robust and reliable one-dimensional construct. Study 2 cross-validates this factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis. Study 2 also shows that informational role self-efficacy predicts proactive teamwork behaviors over and above goal similarity, interdependence, coordination and intra-team trust.


CONCLUSIONS
The instrument can be used in research to assess an individual's capability beliefs in communicating his/her informational characteristics that are pertinent to the task performance of others. The construct is also shown to have value in team-building exercises.
Telfer School of Management, Institut de recherche de l'Hôpital Montfort, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada. francois.chiocchio@telfer.uottawa.ca.
François
F
Chiocchio
Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Paule
P
Lebel
Internal Medicine Division and Critical Care Division Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Jean-Nicolas
JN
Dubé
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006282:Health Personnel; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
Expertise; Healthcare; Interprofessional collaboration; Self-efficacy; Team