4 63 How does IPE influence students’ perceptions of collaboration? Subsequently students were asked about their experiences with and thoughts about interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice. The last question was, ‘what aspect from the classroom IPE-sessions do you take with you/will you remember when you participate in clinical practice?’ Procedure All participants received an information letter about the research that explained its goals and procedures, and that participation in the interviews was voluntary. Immediately prior to the interviews, students were again informed about the duration, the anonymity and the audio recording of the interviews. All participants in this study signed an informed consent form. All interviews were conducted by the same person (CT) and the audio recordings were transcribed verbatim. Data analysis All interviews were coded using ATLAS.ti. Thematic analysis was conducted, using open, axial and selective coding (Bennett, 2018). The open codes were established in three steps: firstly, four interviews were coded by two researchers of the team (CT and SB) independently, resulting an initial set of 17 codes, including the four sensitising concepts from social capital: ‘bonding’, ‘bridging’ and ‘linking’, and the ‘effect of social capital’. Secondly, all interviews were coded with this set of codes. A discussion followed about which topics required more detailed coding. Thirdly, all transcripts were coded again for the second and third interview questions with more detailed coding. After the open coding process, the research team constructed the axial codes by discussing the main themes of the open codes. The selective coding was executed by comparing the axial codes, constructing a theory about their cohesion. All final themes and their cohesion were determined in discussion with the full research team. Ethical approval The study was submitted to the local scientific board of Northwest Clinics, the Netherlands, which considers all study proposals within the institution. When a study falls within the scope of the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (section 1.b WMO, 26th February 1998), a path of full approval is followed. Our study did not fall within this scope, so the committee waived their approval. All participants were informed that their participation was voluntary and that non-participation would not cause them harm.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTk4NDMw