March 3, 2026Open Access

The sensitivity of TANDEM – A new measure of trauma competence

Key Points

TANDEM appears effective for enhancing trauma competence across various health and social care contexts, and
Overall, the tool can potentially improve trauma-related programs by aiding in their evaluation and implementation.
Future testing is essential to refine and validate the tool across varied professional and cultural groups.
These findings highlight the need for a performance-based validation to solidify the tool's effectiveness.

Abstract

Overall, TANDEM shows promise as a tool for supporting the implementation, evaluation, and development of trauma competence programs in health and social care contexts. Future developments should test TANDEM across diverse educational, professional, and cultural groups, increase variance in the Readiness domain, refine and validate the domains, and validate the instrument against independent, performance-based competence measures.

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Rolf Gjestad

Haukeland University Hospital

Dag Nordanger

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Alina Coman

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

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PLoS ONE

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University of Bergen

Haukeland University Hospital

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

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