Variables associated with interprofessional collaboration: a comparison between primary healthcare and specialized mental health teams.

Background: This study has two aims: first, to identify variables associated with interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among a total of 315 Quebec mental health (MH) professionals working in MH primary care teams (PCTs, N = 101) or in specialized service teams (SSTs, N = 214); and second, to compare IPC associated variables in MH-PCTs vs MH-SSTs.

Methods: A large number of variables acknowledged as strongly related to IPC in the literature were tested. Multivariate regression models were performed on MH-PCTs and MH-SSTs respectively.

[Organizational learning and health promotion: a Quebec project].

Objective: This article focuses on health promotion laboratories, a Quebec professional development program offered by the Public Health Department of the Montréal Region to teams of professionals and managers working in health promotion within local public health organizations. The objective is to examine the process of translating the knowledge gained by participants as a result of the program over the longer term within the organization.

Method: This was a qualitative descriptive study.

Communication and Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Care: From Ideal to Reality in Practice.

To improve patient-centered care, many health care systems are mandating interprofessional collaboration (IPC). However, in many primary care contexts, IPC is still nascent and fraught with tension. Communication is thought to be a key determinant of IPC, but few studies empirically examine IP communication practices.

Harnessing instability as an opportunity for health system strengthening: A review of health system resilience.

In recent years, resilience has emerged as a prominent topic in global health systems discourse as a result of the increasing variety and volume of sources of instability inflicting strain on systems. In line with this study's intent to bring together existing literature on health system resilience as a means to understand the process through which systems achieve resilience, a review of academic literature related to health system resilience was conducted. Emerging from this review is an operational model of resilience that builds on existing health systems frameworks.

Profiling mental health professionals in relation to perceived interprofessional collaboration on teams.

Objectives: This study aims at identifying profiles of mental health professionals based on individual, interactional, structural and professional role characteristics related to interprofessional collaboration.

Methods: Mental health professionals ( = 315) working in primary health care and specialized mental health teams in four Quebec local service networks completed a self-administered questionnaire eliciting information on individual, interactional, structural and professional role characteristics.

Results: Cluster analysis identified four profiles of mental health professionals.

Access to Resources in the Community Through Navigation: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study.

Background: Community-based health and social resources can help individuals with complex health and social needs achieve their health goals. However, there is often inadequate access to these resources due to a lack of physician and patient awareness of available resources and the presence of social barriers that limit an individual's ability to reach these services. Navigation services, where a person is tasked with helping connect patients to community resources, embedded within primary care may facilitate access and strengthen the continuity of care for patients.

Examining perceptions from in situ simulation-based training on interprofessional collaboration during crisis event management in post-anesthesia care.

Due to the potentially life-threatening conditions and risk of severe complications, post-anesthesia care units (PACU) require prompt team interventions. Miscommunication among professionals during crisis event management may directly affect patient safety. Therefore, developing strategies to enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among critical care teams should be prioritized.

Development and validation of the McGill body image concerns scale for use in head and neck oncology (MBIS-HNC): A mixed-methods approach.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a patient-reported outcome measure to evaluate body image concerns in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients.

Methods: Items were created using a combination of deductive (eg, US Food and Drug Administration Qualification of Clinical Outcome Assessments, literature review) and inductive approaches (eg, subject matter experts, HNC patients). Items were translated for use in both Canadian English and Canadian French using back-translation.

Variables associated with interprofessional collaboration: The case of professionals working in Quebec local mental health service networks.

This study identified variables associated with interprofessional collaboration (IPC) among 315 mental health (MH) professionals working in primary health care (PHC) and specialized teams, within four Quebec (Canada) local service networks (LSNs). IPC was measured with a validated scale, and independent variables were organized according to a four-block conceptual framework that included Individual, Interactional, Organizational and Professional Role Characteristics. Bivariate and multiple linear regression analyses were performed.

[Evaluation of the Mental Health Action Plan (2005-2015): Integration and Performance of Service Networks].

Objectives This study aimed to: 1) assess implementation of the 2005-2015 Quebec mental health (MH) reform, and its enabling and hindering factors as well as MH team performance, in 11 local health service networks; then, for a subset of 4 networks: 2) identify processes influencing service quality in MH teams, and 3) analyze effects of team structures and processes on outcomes for service users.Methods The networks were selected in consultation with 20 MH decision makers. Data sources included: 1) documentation on population, organization and service characteristics, integration strategies, and network challenges; 2) individual and group interviews with 102 regional managers, MH professionals and managers from primary care or specialized MH teams, community organization directors, respondent psychiatrists and general practitioners (GPs); and 3) questionnaires completed by 16 respondent psychiatrists, 90 managers, 315 MH professionals from primary care or specialized teams, and 327 service users.

Author Correction: Associated and Mediating Variables Related to Job Satisfaction among Professionals from Mental Health Teams.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the author group section. The family name of Dr. François should be "Chiocchio" not "Chiochio.

Associated and Mediating Variables Related to Job Satisfaction among Professionals from Mental Health Teams.

Using a structural analysis, this study examines the relationship between job satisfaction among 315 mental health professionals from the province of Quebec (Canada) and a wide range of variables related to provider characteristics, team characteristics, processes, and emergent states, and organizational culture. We used the Job Satisfaction Survey to assess job satisfaction. Our conceptual framework integrated numerous independent variables adapted from the input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) model and the Integrated Team Effectiveness Model (ITEM).

Variables Associated With Perceived Work Role Performance Among Professionals in Multidisciplinary Mental Health Teams Overall and in Primary Care and Specialized Service Teams, Respectively.

This study had a dual purpose (1) to identify variables associated with perceived work role performance (WRP) among 315 mental health professionals (MHPs) in Quebec and (2) to compare variables related to WRP in MH primary care teams (PCTs) and specialized service teams (SSTs), respectively. WRP was measured using an adapted version of the work role questionnaire. Variables were organized within five areas: individual characteristics, perceived team attributes, perceived team processes, perceived team emergent states, and geographical and organizational context.

Variables associated with work performance in multidisciplinary mental health teams.

Objectives: This study investigates work performance among 79 mental health teams in Quebec (Canada). We hypothesized that work performance was positively associated with the use of standardized clinical tools and clinical approaches, integration strategies, "clan culture," and mental health funding per capita.

Methods: Work performance was measured using an adapted version of the Work Role Questionnaire.

Modelling the effect of perceived interdependence among mental healthcare professionals on their work role performance.

The purpose of mental healthcare system reform was to enhance service efficiency by strengthening primary mental healthcare and increasing service integration in communities. Reinforcing interprofessional teamwork also intended to address the extensive and multidimensional needs of patients with mental disorders by bringing together a broader array of expertise. In this context, mental healthcare professionals (MHCPs) from various health and social care professions are more interdependent in many aspects of their work (tasks, resources, and goals).

Profiles of mental health care professionals based on work role performance.

The worldwide burden of mental disorders is considerable, and on the rise, putting pressure on health care systems. Current reforms aim to improve the efficiency of mental health care systems by increasing service integration in communities and strengthening primary mental health care. In this context, mental health care professionals (MHPs) are increasingly required to work on interdisciplinary teams in a variety of settings.

Informational role self-efficacy: a validation in interprofessional collaboration contexts involving healthcare service and project teams.

Background: Healthcare professionals perform knowledge-intensive work in very specialized disciplines. Across the professional divide, collaboration becomes increasingly difficult. For effective teamwork and collaboration to occur, it is considered necessary for individuals to believe in their ability to draw on their expertise and provide what others need to perform their job well.

Professional development programs in health promotion: tools and processes to favor new practices.

Developing innovative interventions that are in sync with a health promotion paradigm often represents a challenge for professionals working in local public health organizations. Thus, it is critical to have both professional development programs that favor new practices and tools to examine these practices. In this case study, we analyze the health promotion approach used in a pilot intervention addressing children's vulnerability that was developed and carried out by participants enrolled in a public health professional development program.

An analysis of the adaptability of a professional development program in public health: results from the ALPS Study.

Background: Professional development is a key component of effective public health infrastructures. To be successful, professional development programs in public health and health promotion must adapt to practitioners' complex real-world practice settings while preserving the core components of those programs' models and theoretical bases. An appropriate balance must be struck between implementation fidelity, defined as respecting the core nature of the program that underlies its effects, and adaptability to context to maximize benefit in specific situations.

Communities of practice as a professional and organizational development strategy in local public health organizations in Quebec, Canada: an evaluation model.

Communities of practice (CoPs) are among the professional development strategies most widely used in such fields as management and education. Though the approach has elicited keen interest, knowledge pertaining to its conceptual underpinnings is still limited, thus hindering proper assessment of CoPs' effects and the processes generating the latter. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents a conceptual model that was developed to evaluate an initiative based on a CoP strategy: Health Promotion Laboratories are a professional development intervention that was implemented in local public health organizations in Montreal (Quebec, Canada).