Glossary I

Glossary I

Interprofessional collaboration refers to an effective interpersonal process that is enacted through teamwork or group efforts with professionals from other disciplines including nurses, physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists which facilitates the achievement of goals that cannot be reached by one practitioner working alone. Example. A Medical doctors collaborating with a Physical therapist to rehabilitate a stroke victim.

Interquartile range refers to the interval of scores bounded by the 25th and the 75th percentiles.

Interrater reliability (or Interjudge reliability) refers to the level of agreement between two (2) or more raters who have evaluated the same individual independently.

Interrogation is defined as an adversarial interview with opposing goals, the truth versus deception.

Interrole conflict refers to a form of role conflict that occurs when individuals occupy multiple roles within a group and the expectations and behaviors associated with one of their roles are not consistent with the expectations and behaviors associated with another of their roles. Also spelled Inter-role conflict

Interrupted time series with switching replications refers to an interrupted time series design that uses non-equivalent groups and introduces the treatment at different points in the series of observations for the two groups

Interrupted time-series design refers to a quasi-experimental research design consisting of a series of observations before and after an event. The event is not a treatment or an experience created or manipulated by the researcher. Interrupted time-series design, moreover is defined as a quasi-experimental design in which a single group is observed multiple times before an experimental manipulation and then multiple times after the manipulation.

Interruption is defined as a period of simultaneous speech more than one word prior to the speaker's projected completion point. Please see also Overlap.