The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research

The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research

BACKGROUND There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report the psychometric properties, establish benchmarking data, and discuss emerging areas of research with the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. METHODS Six cross-sectional surveys of health care...

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

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 re...

Psychometric Properties of the Norwegian translation of the Safety Attitudes

Designing and determining psychometric properties of the Elderly Happiness Questionnaire

Objective: The purpose of this methodological study was to design and determine the psychometric properties of a new and specific questionnaire for assessing elderly happiness in the context of Iranian culture. Material and Methods: This study was a methodological research that was conducted from May 2018 to June 2019. It was conducted in four phases recommended by Schneider and et al (2004). ...

The safety attitudes questionnaire – ambulatory version: psychometric properties of the Slovenian version for the out-of-hours primary care setting

BACKGROUND Several tools have been developed to measure safety attitudes of health care providers, out of which the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is regarded as one of the most appropriate ones. In 2007, it was adapted to outpatient (primary health care) settings and in 2014 it was tested in out-of-hours health care settings in Norway. The purpose of this study was to translate the Engli...