Yung-Tai Tang, Hsin-Hung Wu, Yii-Ching Lee, Chih-Hsuan Huang
The increasing number of healthcare-related adverse events around the world confirms the importance of improving patient safety culture in healthcare organizations around the world. Physicians and nurses play a pivotal role in promoting patient safety due to the nature of their work. This study re-validates the Chinese version of the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ) to increase its accuracy and concision in estimating health professionals’ safety attitudes in Taiwan. Two stages of data evaluation were employed. A survey was conducted with 384 healthcare workers in a regional teaching hospital, and its results were assessed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to extract potential dimensions. Then, survey data from 742 samples obtained from a medical center were examined using confirmatory factor analysis to estimate the stability of the measurement variables derived from the EFA results. Two correlated first-order factors were found, including 10 items identified as measures of collaborative commitment and stress recognition. To improve the quality of medical care delivered to patients, it is necessary to periodically assess patient safety culture and identify how medical staff perceive it. The revised SAQ will assist further practice in assessing patient safety in Chinese healthcare setting. © 2022, International Association of Engineers. All rights reserved.
Department of International Business, Providence University, Taichung City, Taiwan; Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan; Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Malang, East Java, Malang, Indonesia; Department of Health Business Administration, Hung Kuang University, Taichung City, Taiwan; School of Business Administration, Hubei University of Economics, China; Institute for Development of Cross-Strait Small and Medium Enterprise, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan City, China