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Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior

BACKGROUND: Interprofessional collaboration constitutes a vital part of modern patient care, and many of its benefits for patients, medical staff, and the healthcare system have been described. However, little is known about factors influencing medical students’ intentions to work in a collaborative...

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Autores principales: Przymuszała, Piotr, Szmelter, Jagoda, Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja, Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena, Marciniak, Ryszard
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36882729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04136-0
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author Przymuszała, Piotr
Szmelter, Jagoda
Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja
Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena
Marciniak, Ryszard
author_facet Przymuszała, Piotr
Szmelter, Jagoda
Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja
Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena
Marciniak, Ryszard
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description BACKGROUND: Interprofessional collaboration constitutes a vital part of modern patient care, and many of its benefits for patients, medical staff, and the healthcare system have been described. However, little is known about factors influencing medical students’ intentions to work in a collaborative practice after graduation. Therefore, with the theory of planned behavior by Ajzen as a framework, this study aimed to evaluate their intentions and identify factors that influence their attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. METHODS: For this purpose, eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical students following a thematic guide developed according to the theory. They were thematically analyzed by two independent researchers. RESULTS: The results showed that their attitudes contained positive (better patient care, comfort and safety of work, learning and development opportunities) and negative examples like the fear of conflicts, losing authority and mistreatment. Sources of social pressure regarding the behavior (subjective norms) involved their peers, other physicians, representatives of other medical professions, patients, and managing bodies. Finally, perceived behavioral control included limited occasions for contacts and interprofessional learning during the studies, existing stereotypes and prejudices, legal regulations and systemic solutions, organizational aspects, and existing relations at the ward. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis showed that Polish medical students generally seem to hold positive views on interprofessional collaboration and feel positive social pressure to get involved in interprofessional teams. However, factors listed in perceived behavioral control may act as barriers in the process.
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spelling pubmed-99909732023-03-08 Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior Przymuszała, Piotr Szmelter, Jagoda Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena Marciniak, Ryszard BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Interprofessional collaboration constitutes a vital part of modern patient care, and many of its benefits for patients, medical staff, and the healthcare system have been described. However, little is known about factors influencing medical students’ intentions to work in a collaborative practice after graduation. Therefore, with the theory of planned behavior by Ajzen as a framework, this study aimed to evaluate their intentions and identify factors that influence their attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. METHODS: For this purpose, eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical students following a thematic guide developed according to the theory. They were thematically analyzed by two independent researchers. RESULTS: The results showed that their attitudes contained positive (better patient care, comfort and safety of work, learning and development opportunities) and negative examples like the fear of conflicts, losing authority and mistreatment. Sources of social pressure regarding the behavior (subjective norms) involved their peers, other physicians, representatives of other medical professions, patients, and managing bodies. Finally, perceived behavioral control included limited occasions for contacts and interprofessional learning during the studies, existing stereotypes and prejudices, legal regulations and systemic solutions, organizational aspects, and existing relations at the ward. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis showed that Polish medical students generally seem to hold positive views on interprofessional collaboration and feel positive social pressure to get involved in interprofessional teams. However, factors listed in perceived behavioral control may act as barriers in the process. BioMed Central 2023-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9990973/ /pubmed/36882729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04136-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Przymuszała, Piotr
Szmelter, Jagoda
Zielińska-Tomczak, Łucja
Cerbin-Koczorowska, Magdalena
Marciniak, Ryszard
Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior
title Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior
title_full Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior
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title_short Future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior
title_sort future physicians’ behavioral intentions towards collaborative practice - a qualitative study on polish final-year medical students guided by the theory of planned behavior
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36882729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04136-0
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