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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Rehabil. Sci.
Sec. Human Functioning Sciences
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fresc.2024.1424370
This article is part of the Research Topic ICF in Teaching, Training and Education - Retrospective For Future Concepts - What Remains Of 20 Years Of ICF In Education? View all 5 articles

Exploring Patient Perspective: Using Narrative DIPEx Interviews and the ICF Model for Interprofessional Learning

Provisionally accepted
Andrea Glässel Andrea Glässel 1,2*Ilona Hippold Ilona Hippold 1
  • 1 Institute of Health Sciences, School of Health Professions, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2 Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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    Introduction: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) has been widely adopted in academic health profession education and is part of bachelor curricula since its introduction by the WHO in 2001. In this context, interprofessional exchange among health professionals from a biopsychosocial perspective has become increasingly important and is now a key part of bachelor’s program curricula to learn with, about, and from each other regarding students' curiosity about interprofessional collaboration (IPC). This pilot study describes initial teaching experiences within an interprofessional elective module for health professions focused on patient-centeredness. It uses the ICF model to exemplify interprofessional exchange based on real patient experiences from the “DIPEx” database, which stands for “Database of Individual Patients’ Experiences.” Methods: Bachelor students from four healthcare professions learned in small interprofessional groups and selected case-related content from excerpts of real patient narratives from qualitative interviews in the DIPEx database. In a peer-to-peer process, students structured, analyzed, and reflected on selected patient experiences and presented their findings using the ICF model. Outcome: Develop a shared understanding of the case from a biopsychosocial perspective using the ICF model to communicate and reflect on patient-centeredness in interprofessional groups for a common care strategy rooted in patient-centeredness. Conclusion: This study illustrates how the shared analysis of a patient's experience of illness can lead to different perspectives on professional concepts for practice. The ICF model serves as a guiding structure and analysis tool. The core of IPC, patient-centeredness, becomes the focus of collaborative actions of health professions.

    Keywords: Patient-centeredness, Interprofessional collaboration, interprofessional education, ICF, DIPEX, Narration, Patient perspective, health professionals

    Received: 27 Apr 2024; Accepted: 13 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Glässel and Hippold. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Andrea Glässel, Institute of Health Sciences, School of Health Professions, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, 8401, Zürich, Switzerland

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