Method: In 2012, ICDEOS was developed and evaluated to measure ‘IPE student team processes’ and the ‘quality of clinical dental education’ received amongst dentistry, oral health therapy and dental technology undergraduate students. A face validity analysis by IPE experts confirmed that items within the scale reflected the entire meaning of relevant concepts. Piloting was conducted amongst 158 undergraduate students (61% response rate) involved with TBTP.
Result: An exploratory factor analysis using the principal component method retained twenty-three items with a total variance of 64.6% suggesting high content validity. Three subscales accounted for 45.7%, 11.4% and 7.5% of the variance respectively. Internal consistency of the scale (Cronbach’s α = .943) and subscales 1 (α = .953), 2 (α = .897) and 3 (α = .813) were high. A reliability analysis yielded moderate (Spearman’s rho 0.43) to high correlations (0.81) with the remaining items in the scale. Removal of any items resulted in a lower internal consistency for the entire scale. Confirmatory factor analyses verified convergent validity and substantiated that this structure has a good model fit.
Conclusion: The validity and reliability of ICDEOS to evaluate the impact of interprofessional teams-based processes on the quality of clinical dental education received has been established. Further study within comparable educational institutions, nationally and internationally, is required.