Abstract
Promoting Inter-Professional Work is essential to construct the Integrated Care System. Conference of Palliative And Home Care (C-PAHC) was established at Kita Tama district in 2009 to hold lectures on enhancing inter-professional collaboration. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of our lectures on Inter-Professional Work by using “scale evaluating the quality of communication and cooperation among medical, nursing, and welfare services in a region (SCC)”.
75 individuals participated in this study. According to the SCC score, we divided these subjects into three groups as follows；“participated in lectures held by C-PAHC more than 6 times over the past three years”, “participated in inter-professional collaboration lectures not only C-PAHC but including others more than 6 times over the past three years” and “participated in inter-professional collaboration lectures less than 6 times over the past three years”. We performed Kruskal-Wallis test to compare between each group, and differences in mean values were assessed with Scheffe multiple comparison procedure.
We excluded one subject whose ratio of missing values was more than 15%. Therefore, the current study population consisted of 74 subjects. The median SCC score of “participated in lectures of C-PAHC more than 6 times over the past three years” was significantly greater than other groups. (P＜0.001, respectively)
These results indicate that participating in Inter-Professional Work lectures held in the district more than twice per year is recommended.
