Health Care Clinical Preceptors’ Attitudes Towards Interprofessional Education in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study [Letter]

Dear editor

We are writing to provide feedback on the’ Health Care Clinical Preceptors’ Attitudes Towards Interprofessional Education in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study’¹ article titled. The findings of this study offer the following advantages: 1) This study employed quantitative and qualitative approaches. 2) The respondents exhibited diverse characteristics, including age (ranging from 20 to 59 years), education level, length of employment, place of work, and various health professions. 3) This study had advantages for developing IPE programmes that enhance personal, professional, and interpersonal learning.

Nevertheless, we have identified several constraints that should be considered for future research: 1) This study solely included clinical supervisors. Although the participation of clinical supervisors is crucial in this study to gain insights into their perspectives and attitudes towards interpersonal education; in addition, it is worth considering involving other respondents to gather more information such as participants, including students, lecturers, or other stakeholders, can offer diverse perspectives and enhance the perspectives and attitudes of clinical supervisors. 2) The imbalance in the baseline data, namely in terms of age, gender, education level, length of employment, and workplace location of the recruited respondents, could potentially affected the statistical findings. 3) This study compared two groups and employed non-parametric methods. We suggest utilising parametric and experimental studies. This is due to the fact that probability sampling can generate insights that are applicable to a broad range of populations and eliminate bias. 4) Surveys conducted using Qualtrics may exhibit uneven participation and demonstrate a bias towards individuals with internet access. Moreover, the information offered may be restricted and lacking in depth. Furthermore, the accuracy of respondents’ responses could potentially be compromised due to recall bias and social desirability concerns that may be exacerbated by self-completion of the survey.