{ "abstract": "Background\n\nInterprofessional training is essential for high-quality care of older adults. Despite widespread recognition of its importance, evidence on perceived geriatric competence remains limited to studies on single countries or professions.Methods\n\nSecondary analysis of a COST Action multinational multilingual web-based survey (PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING, PROGRAMMING) conducted across the 27 European Union Member States (EU-27) and non-EU-27 countries between 9 October 2023 and 5 June 2024. Four thousand seven hundred eighty-eight professionals from 10 core health and social care groups were included. We explored perceived Knowledge, Relevance and Interest across seven domains required for comprehensive geriatric assessment: frailty, falls and mobility, delirium, depression, mild cognitive impairment and dementia screening, nutritional assessment and malnutrition, polypharmacy and deprescribing. Student's t test; one-way analysis of variance, hierarchical clustering and latent class analysis were used to identify interprofessional differences and shared patterns across professions.Results\n\nMean age was 42.4 years (SD 11.9); 3432 (71.7%) were women; 2893 (60.4%) worked in EU-27 countries. Interprofessional differences were observed across all topics. Physiotherapists led in falls and mobility (mean 4.21, SD 0.75), pharmacists in polypharmacy and deprescribing (mean 3.51, SD 1.07), and psychologists/psychotherapists in depression (mean 3.96, SD 0.82). A medical doctors-nurses-pharmacists cluster emerged for Knowledge and Interest; 34.4% pharmacists fell in the low relevance class. Social workers and speech and language therapists showed a low Knowledge-high Interest mismatch. EU-27 professionals reported higher scores than non-EU-27 professionals across most topics (P < .001).Conclusions\n\nPerceived knowledge, relevance and interest showed substantial variation across professions and regions, while revealing shared professional profiles. This may inform team-based interprofessional education.", "abstract_shown": true, "affiliations": [ "Unit of Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Italian National Research Center on Aging (INRCA-IRCCS), Cosenza, Italy.", "National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Council, Glenfield, UK.", "Geriatric Department, CHRU Nancy and INSERM DCAC, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.", "Department of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.", "Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.", "Service de Médecine Interne Gériatrie, University Hospital of Marseille, Marseille, France.", "Neurosciences of Systems Institute, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.", "Hospital CUF Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal.", "NOVA Medical School, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.", "Faculty of Medicine, Institution of Clinical Sciences Helsingborg, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.", "Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.", "Faculty of Medicine, \"Carol Davila\" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.", "\"Ana Aslan\" National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Bucharest, Romania.", "Terveystalo Oy, Helsinki, Finland.", "Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County, Lohja, Finland.", "Dental School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.", "Hellenic Society for the Study and Research of Ageing, Athens, Greece.", "1st Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.", "Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.", "Department of Geriatrics, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.", "Department of Geriatrics, Navarrabiomed, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain.", "Navarre University Hospital (HUN), Department of Geriatrics, Navarre Health Service (SNS-O), Pamplona, Spain.", "Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain.", "CIBER of Frailty and Healthy Aging (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.", "Department of Health Care of Older People, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.", "Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.", "Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.", "Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland.", "Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.", "Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.", "Ageing Clinical Research, Department II of Internal Medicine and Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.", "Excellence Cluster CECAD, University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.", "Division of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.", "Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.", "Royal Bournemouth Hospital, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, UK.", "Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.", "Department of Geriatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.", "Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.", "Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 15, Graz 8036, Austria." ], "article_type": "research article", "arxiv": null, "author_total": 29, 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