Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey Revised

The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey Revised (ICCAS-R) is a self-report tool designed to measure changes in interprofessional collaboration skills among healthcare students and professionals. This 20-item survey assesses competencies in six key areas: communication, collaboration, roles and responsibilities, patient-family-centered approach, conflict management, and team functioning.  

Using a retrospective pre-post approach, participants complete the tool after IPE training, but rate their abilities twice: once as they recall them prior to training, and again now that training is done. 

Students rate their skills on a scale:

• 1 = poor
• 2 = fair
• 3 = good
• 4 = very good
• 5 = excellent

The results can allow IPE  programs to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, as well as help individuals to reflect on how training impacts their teamwork competencies. The validity study revealed high internal consistency and a single explanatory factor underlying all six domains.   

Question 21 has been studied and reported as a reliable predictor for individual responses to individual ICCAS items: 

"Compared to the time before the learning activities, would you say your ability to collaborate interprofessionally is (circle one) 1 = Much better now; 2 = Somewhat better now; 3 = About the same; 4 = Somewhat worse now; 5 = Much worse now " 

Questions

1. Promote effective communication among members of an interprofessional (IP) team

2. Actively listen to IP team members' ideas and concerns

3. Express my ideas and concerns without being judgemental

4. Provide constructive feedback to IP team members

5. Express my ideas and concerns in a clear, concise manner

6. Seek out IP team members to address issues

7. Work effectively with IP team members to enhance care

8. Learn with, from, and about each IP team members to enhance care

9. Identify and describe my abilities and contributions to the IP team

10. Be accountable for my contributions to the IP team

11. Understand the abilities and contributions of IP team members

12. Recognize how others' skills and knowledge complement and overlap with my own

13. Use an IP team approach with the patient to assess the health situation

14. Use an IP team approach with the patient to provide whole person care

15. Include the patient/family in decision-making

16. Actively listen to the perspectives of IP team members

17. Take into account the ideas of IP team members

18. Address team conflict in a respectful manner

19. Develop an effective care plan with IP team members

20. Negotiate responsibilities within overlapping scopes of practice

Sources:

Archibald, D., Trumpower, D., & MacDonald, C. J. (2014). Validation of the interprofessional collaborative competency attainment survey (ICCAS), Journal of Interprofessional Care, 28,6, 553-558, DOI: 10.3109/13561820.2014.917407.

Schmitz, C. C., Radosevich, David M., Jardine, P., MacDonald, C. J., Trumpower, D. and Archibald, D. (2017). The interprofessional collaborative competency attainment survey (ICCAS): a replication validation study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1, 28-34.