Beaulieu, Marie-Dominique and Dragieva, Nataliya and Del Grande, Claudio and Dawson, Jeremy and Haggerty, Jeannie L. and Barnsley, Jan and Hogg, William E. and Tousignant, Pierre and West, Michael (2014) The Team Climate Inventory as a measure of primary care teams’ processes : validation of the French version. Healthcare Policy, 9 (3). pp. 40-54.
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Purpose: Evaluate the psychometric properties of the French version of the short 19-item Team Climate Inventory (TCI) and explore the contributions of individual and organizational characteristics to perceived team effectiveness. Method: The TCI was completed by 471 of the 618 (76.2%) healthcare professionals and administrative staff working in a random sample of 37 primary care practices in the province of Quebec. Results: Exploratory factor analysis confirmed the original four-factor model. Cronbach's alphas were excellent (from 0.88 to 0.93). Latent class analysis revealed three-class response structure. Respondents in practices with professional governance had a higher probability of belonging to the "High TCI" class than did practices with community governance (36.7% vs. 19.1%). Administrative staff tended to fall into the "Suboptimal TCI" class more frequently than did physicians (36.5% vs. 19.0%). Conclusion: Results confirm the validity of our French version of the short TCI. The association between professional governance and better team climate merits further exploration.