The multi-professional panel of clinicians included four physiotherapists, four occupational therapists (all at clinical specialist or senior level) and two consultant physicians in rehabilitation medicine.
To deal with the lack of familiarity with legal preparedness, multi-professional panels were created to reach consensus concerning relevant issues (60, 61).
This study reports the validation (i.e. investigation of the degree to which the instrument accurately and reliably measures what it intends to) of the APCA African POS, a tool developed by a multi-professional expert panel and piloted in 11 sites in 8 Eastern and Southern African countries (Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
This was compared with the opinion of a professional panel.
The professional panel had 22 experts, the consumer panel 10, and the carer panel 6.
The professional panel had 50 experts, the consumer panel 6, but no carers could be recruited.
The mental health professional panel and the financial counsellor panel, and the mental health professional panel and the carer panel had the strongest correlations (both r = .89) and the financial institution staff and the carers had the lowest (r = .72).72
The professional panel had 37 experts, the consumer panel 13, and the carer panel 4. The carers were also consumers themselves, and because of the small numbers, the consumer and carer panels were combined into one panel of 17.
Three professional panels were held and were attended by 9 professionals; nine carers but no patients were involved in the three peer panels.
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Remember when homecare was a respected realm for multi-professional, community-based help and support?
