Factors associated with interprofessional collaboration 1 in Primary Health Care: a multilevel analysis

Working with an interprofessional focus is increasingly necessary, in view of the growing complexity of the population's health needs. This study aims to assess interprofessio-nal collaboration and the teamwork climate in primary health care (PHC) and determine whe-ther there is a relationship between these two variables. The AITCS-II instrument was used to measure interprofessional collaboration, while to diagnose teamwork climate, the ECTE instru-ment was used, a version adapted to the SUS con-text of the Teamwork Climate Inventory instru-ment. These two instruments were applied online together with a questionnaire for the sociodemo-graphic characterization of the 544 participants, who belonged to 97 Family Health Strategy (FHS) teams in a Brazilian municipality. The obtained data were submitted to a multilevel analysis. A positive correlation was observed between inter-professional collaboration and three of the four teamwork climate factors. The better the work climate, the better the interprofessional collabora-tion in the corresponding team, and this charac-teristic stands out in relation to other individual characteristics. cada cente da avaliar a estas cao AITCS-II, de dois sociodemografica centes obtidos vel. a fatores caracteristica