Adithya SUDIARNO, Ilham AKBAR, Ratna Sari DEWI, Anny MARYANI, Dyah Santhi DEWI
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1 Deparment of Biomedical Sciences, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia.
2 Deparment of Basic Medical Sciences Nursing, Kulliyyah of Nursing, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia.
Page 30 – 34 | Vol. 3 No. 2 (2018) | Available online on 1 Dec 2018
Abstract
According to the World Health Organization, the reduction of accidental injury during medical procedure is heavily influenced by patient safety culture in hospitals. Patient safety culture is a collective shared behavior ranging from individual and group values, attitudes and perception that determine the commitment of an organization‟s safety management. Organizations such as the National Health Services and the National Quality Forum have suggested that by measuring patient safety culture, the healthcare industry can be improved by assessing their ability to deal with risky healthcare delivery. Because of that, a number of hospitals in developed countries such as the United Kingdom and United States of America have measured their healthcare professionals‟ patient safety attitude by using various validated safety attitude tools. One of the most commonly used tools is the Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ), which has been proven by many studies to have good construct validity, internal consistency and domains properties that are associated with patient safety outcomes. The SAQ can measure healthcare professionals‟ attitude through six domains, which are teamwork climate, safety climate, perception on management, job satisfaction, working condition and stress management. Despite its importance, there is insufficient data on patient safety culture among Malaysian healthcare professionals. Thus, this study was designed to investigate differences in patient safety culture attitudes among selected healthcare professionals and types of hospital. The data analyses include descriptive, one-way ANOVA test and independent t-test in SPSS. The findings showed that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical assistants responded differently for safety climate, job satisfaction and working condition while teamwork climate, perception on management and stress recognition are not significantly different. The results also showed that there are significant differences between the general and district hospitals for safety climate in all domains except for working conditions. These results indicate that healthcare profession and type of hospital were factors for the SAQ scores.
Keywords
Healthcare professionals, Patient safety culture, Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ).
Acknowledgement
We are grateful to all the healthcare professionals who participated in this study and completed the questionnaire. We also would like to thank the Director General of Health Malaysia for his permission to publish this article and to the Ministry of Education, who funded this study through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). This study has no conflict of interest.
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