The safety attitudes questionnaire in Chinese: psychometric properties and benchmarking data of the safety culture in Beijing hospitals.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101088677 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1472-6963 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14726963 NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMC Health Serv Res Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: London : BioMed Central, [2001-
    • Subject Terms:
      Benchmarking* ; Personnel, Hospital* ; Psychometrics* ; Safety Management* ; Surveys and Questionnaires*; Hospitals/*standards; Adult ; Attitude of Health Personnel ; China ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Factor Analysis, Statistical ; Female ; Humans ; Language ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Patient Safety ; Reproducibility of Results ; Young Adult
    • Abstract:
      Background: In China, increasing attention has been devoted to the patient safety culture within health administrative departments and healthcare organizations. However, no official version of a patient safety culture assessment tool has been published or is widely used, and little is known about the status of the safety culture in Chinese hospitals. The aims of this study were to examine the reliability and validity of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in Chinese and to establish benchmark data on the safety culture in Beijing.
      Methods: Across-sectional survey on patient safety culture was conducted from August to October 2014 using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in Chinese. Using a stratified random sampling method, we investigated departments from five integrative teaching hospitals in Beijing; frontline healthcare workers in each unit participated in the survey on a voluntary basis. The internal consistency and reliability were tested via Cronbach's alpha, and the structural validity of the questionnaire was tested using a correlation analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The patient safety culture in the five hospitals was assessed and analyzed.
      Results: A total of 1663 valid questionnaires were returned, for a response rate of 87.9%. Cronbach's alpha of the total scale was 0.945, and Cronbach's alpha for the six dimensions ranged from 0.785 to 0.899. The goodness-of-fit indices in the confirmatory factor analysis showed an acceptable but not ideal model fit. The safety attitude score of healthcare workers in the five hospitals was 69.72, and the positive response rate was 38.57% overall. The positive response rates of the six dimensions were between 20.80% and 59.31%.
      Conclusions: The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in Chinese has good internal consistency, and the structural validity and reliability are acceptable. This questionnaire can be used to assess the safety culture in Beijing hospitals, but some items require further refinement. The patient safety culture in Beijing hospitals must be improved in certain key areas.
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      Keywords: Cross-sectional survey; Patient safety; Reliability; Safety attitudes questionnaire; Safety culture; Validity
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20170824 Date Completed: 20180402 Latest Revision: 20181202
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      PMC5568263
    • Accession Number:
      10.1186/s12913-017-2543-2
    • Accession Number:
      28830416