Attitudes of Health Professionals towards Integrated Health Campuses: A Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Saylan B., ÇINAROĞLU S.

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, 2023 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1155/2023/1400801
  • Dergi Adı: HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, AgeLine, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, CAB Abstracts, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Psycinfo, Public Affairs Index, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

City hospitals (integrated health campuses) are a remarkable health policy action that has recently been implemented to meet the increasing public health needs. Health care professionals work in a collaborative atmosphere and provide interprofessional care on health campuses. 'is study is designed to explore the con1rmatory factor structure of the Initial Attitudes towards Integrated Health Care (ATIHC) scale in Turkish health professionals, which was used to evaluate the attitudes of health professionals, consisting of senior managers and specialist physicians, towards city hospitals. Data were gathered from 196 health professionals, including senior managers and specialist physicians, working in a city hospital located in the rural part of the country. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to analyze the data through the 1rst-order and second-order stages. The performance of the second-order CFA model is meaningful (p < 0.00001) and acceptable (X-2/df. 1663/430. 3.8; RMSEA. 0.12), and the goodness-of-1t indices are good (CFI. 0.92; NFI. 0.89; IFI. 0.92). 'e ATIHC scale, which consists of four latent variables under the second-order latent "attitudes" variable, better represents the sample, and health care quality and effciency (beta = 1.03, p < 0.01) and coordination of care components (beta = 1.02, p < 0.01) are the prominent factors in explaining the attitudes of health professionals towards city hospitals. Turkish version of ATIHC is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the attitudes of health professionals towards city hospitals.