Dataset on nurses' perception and practice of inter-professional collaboration at Muhammadiyah hospitals, Indonesia

This article focused on presenting data collection of nurses' perceptions and practices of interprofessional collaboration at Muhammadiyah hospitals in Six regions in East Java, (Surabaya, Gersik, Lamongan, Sidoarjo, Banyuwangi, and Bojonegoro) Indonesia. The survey was conducted on nurses’ perceptions and practices towards interprofessional education in hospitals. The survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire administered to 312 nurses at Muhammadiyah hospitals in East Java province which was the second largest population after West Java province and the province with the highest number of Muhammadiyah hospitals in Indonesia. The survey involved nurses working at these hospitals and was conducted from June to December 2019. The questionnaire was used for data collection consisted of 24 questions on perception of inter-professional collaboration, and 21 questions on inter-professional collaborative practices using a Likert scale measure. The data were analyzed using quantitative descriptive statistical analysis.


a b s t r a c t
This article focused on presenting data collection of nurses' perceptions and practices of interprofessional collaboration at Muhammadiyah hospitals in Six regions in East Java, (Surabaya, Gersik, Lamongan, Sidoarjo, Banyuwangi, and Bojonegoro) Indonesia. The survey was conducted on nurses' perceptions and practices towards interprofessional education in hospitals. The survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire administered to 312 nurses at Muhammadiyah hospitals in East Java province which was the second largest population after West Java province and the province with the highest number of Muhammadiyah hospitals in Indonesia. The survey involved nurses working at these hospitals and was conducted from June to December 2019. The questionnaire was used for data collection consisted of 24 questions on perception of inter-professional collaboration, and 21 questions on inter-professional collaborative practices using a Likert scale measure. The data were analyzed using quantitative descriptive statistical analysis.
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Value of the data
• The dataset can be used to understand strategies for improving nursing services, especially related to the practice of inter-professional collaboration for nurses in hospitals. • This dataset is valuable for researchers who are interested not only in mapping interprofessional collaborative practice in caring for patients, but also in analyzing and predicting interprofessional education practice models in education and clinics. • The data emphasize the importance of developing innovative approaches to nursing services in hospitals. • Nurse's perception of interprofessional collaboration is important and beneficial to nurses' interests in relationships and building and implementing interprofessional collaboration. • Interprofessional collaboration practices are very useful for determining interprofessional collaboration practice models in hospitals, especially Islamic hospitals Table 1 shows the socio-demographic characteristics of the nurses. The total number of respondents was 312. The median age of nurses was 32.55 ± 8.39 years (ranging from 20 to 50 years). In term of level of education, 183 nurses (58.65%) have Diplomas, 121 nurses (38.78%) have Undergraduate degrees, and 8 nurses (2.56%) have Masters degrees. Table 2 shows the inter-professional collaboration perception score that averaged 97.5 ± 8.59 (ranging from 46 to 120). Data obtained through inter-professional collaboration questionnaire on nurses' perception consisted of 24 items Table 3 shows the inter-professional collaboration practices score that averaged 39.3 ± 1.49 (ranging from 28 to 41). Data obtained through inter-professional collaborative practices questionnaire had 5 items questions Nurses' perception of inter-professional collaboration is measured using a Likert scale measure. In term of perception, 146 respondents (46.8%) had negative perceptions and 166 nurses  Table 4). Whereas, in terms of inter-professional collaborative practices, 157 respondents (50.4%) had good collaborative practices and 155 nurses had poor collaborative practices (49.6%). Table 4 portrays that the highest nurses' perception towards inter-professional collaboration is nurses who have work experience of more than 20 years (70.6%) and nurses who have practical ability of proficient inter-professional collaboration (55,9%)

Experimental design, materials, and methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted involving nurses at Muhammadiyah hospitals in East Java province, from June 2019 to December 2019. Nurses who worked in inpatient and outpatient rooms were chosen as respondents, those with a minimum of one year work experience. The sample size came to 312 nurses according to similar studies [ 12 , 13 ]. Samples were selected by random sampling [14] . A self-administered research questionnaire was used for data collection. The inter-professional collaboration questionnaire on nurses' perception consisted of 24 items measured using a 5-point Likert scale [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] . The scores for the scale ranged as follows: 1 (Strongly Disagree), 2 (Disagree), 3 (Uncertain), 4 (Agree) 5 (Strongly Agree). Cronbach's alpha for the nurses' perception variable was 0.91. The inter-professional collaborative practices questionnaire had 5 items questions with multiple responses Yes (Score 1), No (Score 0) answers. Cronbach's alpha for the Practice of Inter-professional Collaboration variable was 0.97 [ 3 , 15 ]. The descriptive data analysis in the form of a percentage was performed using SPSS Statistics software for Windows version 16 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya (Ethical approval number: 014.0703.19). Verbal consent was obtained from each participant, and the anonymity and confidentiality of the participants were maintained.

Declaration of Competing Interest
The author declares that he has no financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to affect the work reported in this paper.