Real gains: development of a tool to measure outcomes for urban First Australian children accessing culturally responsive interprofessional therapy.
Healthcare services are accountable to their clients, communities, governments and funding sources to clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions. A First Australian children's therapy service delivering culturally responsive, interprofessional collaborative practice aimed to evaluate the...
| Published in: | Journal of Interprofessional Care Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 909 - 917 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov/Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=189324868&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 189324868 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13561820 57N jtl: Journal of Interprofessional Care issn: 13561820 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov/Dec2025 vid: 39 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 189324868 145544934 189324868 189324868 10.1080/13561820.2020.1801611 189324868 ppf: 909 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Real gains: development of a tool to measure outcomes for urban First Australian children accessing culturally responsive interprofessional therapy. aug: au: Hill, Anne E. Nelson, Alison Copley, Jodie A. Quinlan, Teresa McLaren, Chrisdell F. White, Rebekah Castan, Catherine Brodrick, Julie affil: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia sug: subj: Pediatric Care Australia Urban Health Services Australia Collaboration Cultural Competence Interprofessional Relations Health Care Delivery Evaluation Outcomes (Health Care) Evaluation Instrument Construction Instrument Validation Scales Evaluation Human Australia Validation Studies Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Interrater Reliability Multimethod Studies Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Pretest-Posttest Design Occupational Therapists Speech-Language Pathologists Male Female Adult Middle Age Child, Preschool Child Adolescence T-Tests Linear Regression Confidence Intervals Bivariate Statistics Multivariate Analysis Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years Male Female ab: Healthcare services are accountable to their clients, communities, governments and funding sources to clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions. A First Australian children's therapy service delivering culturally responsive, interprofessional collaborative practice aimed to evaluate their service. However, this process was constrained by available outcome measures which lacked the flexibility necessary for meaningful use within the dynamic and relational nature of their service delivery. This paper outlines an action research process in three cycles which was used to develop the Australian Therapies Outcome Measure for Indigenous Clients (ATOMIC) with the aim of evaluating therapy outcomes for urban First Australian children engaged in culturally responsive interprofessional therapy. Interrater reliability values of 0.995 and 0.982 were established for ATOMIC pre- and post-therapy measures, respectively, during a pilot phase involving 16 participants. Participants in the main study were 80 First Australian children aged two to 16 years who attended between two and nine interprofessional therapy sessions with occupational therapists and speech pathologists. Pre- and post-therapy ATOMIC scores confirmed progress on pre-determined functional goals across a range of skill domains. Outcomes of this study demonstrated that real gains are being made in urban First Australian children's lives following interprofessional collaborative service provision. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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