by Isa Brito Félix, Carla Nascimento, Patrícia Pereira, Katja Braam, Cathal Cadogan, Judith Strawbridge, Leona Cilar Budler, Lucija Gosak, Nuno Pimenta, Mara Pereira Guerreiro Introduction Supporting behaviour change for the self-management of chronic diseases is a key competency for health professionals. Little is known about how undergraduate students and academic educators across disciplines and European contexts perceive current education, identify unmet needs relative to a European competency framework, and view the implementation of novel educational tools.
To address this gap, we explored students’ and educators’ perspectives, focusing on unmet needs, views on interprofessional education, preferred modalities for using a MOOC, case studies and a simulation software, and perceived facilitators and barriers to use. Methods Twelve online focus groups were conducted separately with a purposive sample of 39 undergraduate students (seven groups) and 27 academic educators (5 groups).
Recruitment spanned national and transnational levels across seven European countries, and included participants from nursing, pharmacy and sport science disciplines within the focus groups. The discussions were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using thematic analysis.
The themes describe contributing factors and propose strategies for development.
The findings discuss potential implementation approaches to foster interprofessional learning in this domain.
Discussions addressed how these tools might be integrated and the conditions that support or hinder their use.