The validity and reliability of the Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale for therapy professionals

Published in Work, the Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale (ISVS) [1] was initially validated with 124 Canadian health profession students. The authors stated that the ISVS was useful to evaluate beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes about interprofessional practice among health profession students and professionals.

While the primary purpose of this study was to identify attitudes and behaviors in occupational, physical, and recreational therapists, and speech-language pathologists, the study also evaluated the validity and reliability of the ISVS.

The ISVS was completed by occupational, physical, and recreational therapists, and speech-language pathologists in Michigan, United States of America to examine beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes towards interprofessional collaboration. Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks test was used to analyze and compare responses across disciplines. Principle component analysis identified factors from the ISVS related to attitudes and behaviors.

While no differences were found between therapy discipline and beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes, there was a significant finding related to the validity and reliability of the ISVS for use with health professionals.

It was found that the ISVS is valid and reliable to use with health professionals but may yield different factors than with health students.