Attitudes of Health Professionals towards Integrated Health Campuses

A Second-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID15087189
AuthorsBusra Saylan (0000-0002-1296-1824, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS), Department of Health Care Management, Hacettepe University Beytepe Campus, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey), Songül Çınaroğlu (0000-0001-5699-8402, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS), Department of Health Care Management, Hacettepe University Beytepe Campus, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author)
EditorsMücahit Aydın (0000-0002-4934-0191)
Year2023
Volume2023
Pages1-11
Publication date2023-03-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth & Social Care in the Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-0410 • E-ISSN: 1365-2524
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1155/2023/1400801
OpenAlexW4361215482
LanguageEN
References cited54

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. This study is designed to explore the confirmatory 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 first-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-fit indices are good (CFI = 0.92; NFI = 0.89; IFI = 0.92). The ATIHC scale, which consists of four latent variables under the second-order latent “attitudes” variable, better represents the sample, and health care quality and efficiency (β = 1.03, p 0.01 ) and coordination of care components (β = 1.02, p 0.01 ) are the prominent factors in explaining the attitudes of health professionals towards city hospitals. The Turkish version of ATIHC is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the attitudes of health professionals towards city hospitals

Confirmatory factor analysis · Geography · Health care · Health professionals · Latent variable · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · Turkish · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Organizational Strategy and Culture · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology

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