Marion Huber

Zurich University of Applied Sciences | ZHAW · Centre for Health Sciences (FGW)

Although Item Response Theory (IRT) has been recommended for helping advance interprofessional education (IPE) research, its use remains limited. This may be partly explained by potential misconceptions regarding IRT`s "limitation" to cross-sectional data. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how Item Response Theory (IRT) can be applied effecti...

Background Interprofessional patient handover between physicians and nurses is considered one of the most important professional activities for ensuring patient safety. Errors in interprofessional patient handover are a major cause of preventable patient harm. For this reason, nurses and physicians are expected to be competent in patient handover a...

We identified evidence from item response theory (IRT) to examine a German translation of the Interprofessional Facilitation Scale (IPFS). The IPFS was administered to n = 130 mixed-health profession participants in a post-interprofessional education practicum questionnaire. We used IRT analyses to examine the following three aspects of the IPFS: (...

Background Fatigue is a common long-term consequence of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Until now, there are intervention approaches for fatigue after TBI, but not specifically for fatigue after moderate and severe TBI in the outpatient setting. According to the demands of multiple studies, the severity and time since the TBI shou...

Background The need to maintain physical and social distance between people and the stay-at-home recommendation/order to contain the spread of COVID-19 have raised concerns about the possible increase in loneliness. However, few studies have analyzed trends or changes in loneliness in samples of young adults. The present study aimed to explore the...

Zielsetzung: Die Patientenübergabe zwischen medizinischem und pflegerischem Personal gilt als eines der wichtigsten Instrumente zur Gewährleistung der Patientensicherheit. Fehler bei der Patientenübergabe sind eine der Hauptursachen für vermeidbare Patientenschäden [1]. Die interprofessionelle Patientenübergabe ist zentraler Bestandteil der Arbeits...

Interprofessional education is expected to promote collaborative practice and should therefore be included in health professionals’ curricula. Reports on interprofessional curricular development and its evaluation are rare. We therefore undertook a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation of a new, mandatory course on interprofessional...

Peer-assisted learning (PAL)–especially peer tutorials–are gaining momentum in health professions education, particularly in interprofessional education. As little is known about the use of peer tutorials or the preparation of tutors in this context in Germany and in other countries, this study aims to provide an overview of these interventions. A...

Objective: Interprofessional education (IPE) is when two or more students from different professions learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and quality of healthcare. In October 2019, a first interprofessional education (IPE) day was held in the canton of Zurich with the aim of teaching interprofessional skills to particip...

Interprofessionelle Lehre (IPL) bedeutet, dass Studierende verschiedener Professionen mit-, von- und übereinander lernen. 2019 wurde im Kanton Zürich ein interprofessioneller Ausbildungstag (IPE-Tag) mit 68 Studierenden und acht Dozierenden über acht Lektionen durchgeführt mit dem Ziel, interprofessionelle Kompetenzen zu verbessern. Studierende aus...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic and government measures implemented to counter the spread of the infection may be a major stressor affecting the psychological health of university students. This study aimed to explore how anxiety symptoms changed during the pandemic. Methods: 676 students (76% females) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences part...

Contemporary practice in interprofessional education (IPE) has evolved predominantly focusing on the competencies for interprofessional collaboration (IPC) that learners must acquire. Competencies that educators need to successfully deliver IPC have been overlooked. This lack of attention is further confounded by a field replete with inconsistent t...

In the wake of local initiatives and developmental funding programs, interprofessionality is now included in national curricula in the German-speaking countries. Based on the 3P model (presage, process, product), this position paper presents the development of interprofessional education in recent years in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and place...

Objective: The positioning and training of communicative and social competencies to improve interprofessional cooperation is and will be a challenge for educational institutions. The aim of this project was to reorient the interprofessional training elements of bachelor programs in terms of both content and structure, to improve the legally require...

Objective The COVID-19 pandemic and government measures implemented to counter the spread of the infection may be a major stressor affecting the psychological health of university students. This study aimed to explore how anxiety symptoms changed during the pandemic. Methods 676 students (76% females) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences parti...

Background: Young adults are not considered a risk group, but the public health response to COVID-19 impacts all citizens. We investigated the impact on young adults’ and their adherence to containment measures addressing potential gender differences. Methods: In April 2020 12 341 students of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences were invited...

Background: Health care providers are experimenting with task shifting, the reassignment of tasks from physicians to other health professionals in order to optimize the skill-grade mix and prevent or counteract skills shortages. Task shifting is also designed to lead to perceived job enrichment and job attractiveness, as well as a stronger focus on...

Social media posts can be used to explore public perceptions of interprofessional teams and healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to use social listening technique to explore unfiltered public perceptions of the professionals involved in healthcare teams during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a naturalistic online setting, and to elaborate...

University students were confronted with abrupt changes to their daily lives by the COVID-19 lock-down. We investigated Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7) and anxiety levels, and the association between perceived impact on well-being, studies, and daily lives and anxiety levels, adjusted for gender, age, social class and affiliation. Earl...

Social media posts can be used to explore public perceptions of interprofessional teams and healthcare professionals. The aim of this study was to use social listening technique to explore unfiltered public perceptions of the professionals involved in healthcare teams during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a naturalistic online setting, and to elaborate...

Zusammenfassung Einleitung: Patienten mit schweren Bewusstseins-störungen wie dem Minimally Conscious State (MCS) minus nach erworbener Hirnverletzung kön-nen einen Rückgewinn an Bewusstsein (Wachheit und Wahrnehmung) und Fähigkeiten aufweisen. Alltagsnahe Therapien wie jene nach dem Affolter-Modell ® haben sich in der Rehabilitation durch-gesetzt....

Interprofessional research within the contexts of education and health and social care practice has grown exponentially within the past three decades. To maintain the momentum of high-quality research, it is important that early career researchers embarking on their first research journey and new to interprofessional education or interprofessional...

Objective The goal of this single case study was to qualitatively investigate the effects of animal-assisted therapy in a patient in a minimally conscious state. Method We present a 28-year-old female patient in a minimally conscious state following polytrauma after a sports accident leading to cerebral fat embolism causing multiple CNS ischemic l...

Research attention has been paid to providing evidence on undergraduate/pre-licensure health sciences students’ interprofessional education competency requirements, placements, and attainment. Although interprofessional facilitator training has been identified as critical to interprofessional learner outcomes, scant research has examined student pe...

Background: Vast research attention has been paid to providing evidence on undergraduate / pre-licensure health sciences students' IP competency requirements, placement, and attainment. However, while IP facilitator training is critical to IP effectiveness for student outcomes, there remains insufficient research identifying the IP facilitator comp...

This editorial provides an overview of the common quantitative study designs for IPE and addresses some implications for their analytic approaches. Subsequently, the editorial turns toward the prevailing measurement paradigm employed in IPE – classical test theory (CTT). Specifically, the editorial discusses key limitations of CTT for IPE research,...

Background: More and more institutions worldwide and in German-speaking countries are developing and establishing interprofessional seminars in undergraduate education of health professions. In order to evaluate the different didactic approaches and different outcomes regarding the anticipated interprofessional competencies, it is necessary to appl...

Objectives: Our study aimed to describe temporal changes in self-rated health status (SRH) from 1997 to 2012 in adults aged 25 to 84 residing in Switzerland with a view to identifying groups at risk for declining health. Study design: Secondary analysis of population-based cross-sectional health surveys. Methods: Data were collected from the cross-...

Die Kontaktaufnahme zwischen Physiotherapeuten und Patienten erfolgt normalerweise über Sprache, Mimik und Gestik. Dieser Weg ist bei Menschen im Wachkoma nicht möglich, was besonderer Assessments bedarf.

Die Kontaktaufnahme zwischen Ergotherapeuten und Klienten erfolgt normalerweise uber Sprache, Mimik und Gestik. Dieser Weg ist bei Menschen im Wachkoma nicht moglich, was den Einsatz von Assessments eingrenzt. Erfahren Sie, welche Messinstrumente sich bei Menschen im Wachkoma eignen.

Clinical assessments should meet the general psychometric properties of reliability and validity. Furthermore there are requirements in matters of diagnostic validity and usability. In regards to patients with severe brain damage, both issues can mainly be implemented by detecting and assessing returning abilities as early as possible, in order to...

Assessing the process of vegetative state is difficult. There are no observational tools so far which are sensitive enough to register the subtle changes in vegetative states. Besides, it is necessary to distinguish between measurements of consciousness and of functions. The »Basel Vegetative State Assessment« (BAVESTA) has been developed since 200...