Introduction:

From within interprofessional education, progress is being made to promote the building of due capacity in the health personnel, in view of responding to local needs in a dynamic setting, based on the call of World Health Organization to develop interdisciplinary activities throughout the world and promote teamwork. In this respect, simulation has been used, since it invites to work with cooperative skills in clinical situations, as well as to evaluate students’ perception about self-efficacy in collaborative activity and in settings that involve various disciplines.

Objective:

To compare the students' perception about self-efficacy in pre-simulation and post-simulation interprofessional learning of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Methods:

Quantitative, comparative, pre-experimental and cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 69 participants from the Kinesiology, Nursing, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Medicine majors. A scale was applied to determine self-efficacy for interprofessional experiential learning before and after the participation, in the simulated scenario of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 21.0.

Results:

There was an increase in self-efficacy after the simulated activity (W<0.05). There were no significant differences when comparing students' perception by major (K-W>0.05). However, in the scores for the reagents, the Kinesiology and Nutrition and Dietetics major manifested increased perception of self-efficacy in teamwork in both dimensions.

Conclusions:

It was possible to compare the students' perception of self-efficacy in pre and post-simulation interprofessional learning and an increase in perception was obtained in a positive way, after the simulated experience.