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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric evaluation in Kuwaiti public healthcare settings

OBJECTIVE: As healthcare organisations endeavour to improve the quality and safety of their services, there is increasing recognition of the importance of building a culture of safety to promote patient safety and improve the outcomes of patient care. Surveys of safety culture/climate have not knowi...

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Autores principales: Al Salem, Gheed, Bowie, Paul, Morrison, Jill
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31152040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028666
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description OBJECTIVE: As healthcare organisations endeavour to improve the quality and safety of their services, there is increasing recognition of the importance of building a culture of safety to promote patient safety and improve the outcomes of patient care. Surveys of safety culture/climate have not knowingly been conducted in Kuwait public hospitals, nor are valid or reliable survey instruments available for this context. This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the HSOPSC (Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture) tool in Kuwaiti public hospitals in addition to constructing an optimal model to assess the level of safety climate in this setting. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Three public hospitals in Kuwait. PARTICIPANTS: About 1317 healthcare professionals. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: An adapted and contextualised version of HSOPSC was used to conduct psychometric evaluation including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis reliability and correlation analysis. RESULTS: 1317 questionnaires (87%) were returned. Psychometric evaluation, showed an optimal model of eight factors and 22 safety climate items. All items have strong factor loadings (0.42–0.86) and are theoretically related. Reliability analysis showed satisfactory results (α >0.60). CONCLUSIONS: This is the first validation study of a standardised safety climate measure in a Kuwaiti healthcare setting. An optimal model for assessing patient safety climate was produced that mirrors other international studies and which can be used for measuring the prevailing safety climate. More importance should be attached to the psychometric fidelity of safety climate questionnaires before extending their use in other healthcare culture and contexts internationally.
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spelling pubmed-65496042019-06-21 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric evaluation in Kuwaiti public healthcare settings Al Salem, Gheed Bowie, Paul Morrison, Jill BMJ Open Health Services Research OBJECTIVE: As healthcare organisations endeavour to improve the quality and safety of their services, there is increasing recognition of the importance of building a culture of safety to promote patient safety and improve the outcomes of patient care. Surveys of safety culture/climate have not knowingly been conducted in Kuwait public hospitals, nor are valid or reliable survey instruments available for this context. This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the HSOPSC (Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture) tool in Kuwaiti public hospitals in addition to constructing an optimal model to assess the level of safety climate in this setting. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Three public hospitals in Kuwait. PARTICIPANTS: About 1317 healthcare professionals. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: An adapted and contextualised version of HSOPSC was used to conduct psychometric evaluation including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis reliability and correlation analysis. RESULTS: 1317 questionnaires (87%) were returned. Psychometric evaluation, showed an optimal model of eight factors and 22 safety climate items. All items have strong factor loadings (0.42–0.86) and are theoretically related. Reliability analysis showed satisfactory results (α >0.60). CONCLUSIONS: This is the first validation study of a standardised safety climate measure in a Kuwaiti healthcare setting. An optimal model for assessing patient safety climate was produced that mirrors other international studies and which can be used for measuring the prevailing safety climate. More importance should be attached to the psychometric fidelity of safety climate questionnaires before extending their use in other healthcare culture and contexts internationally. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6549604/ /pubmed/31152040 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028666 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_fullStr Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric evaluation in Kuwaiti public healthcare settings
title_full_unstemmed Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric evaluation in Kuwaiti public healthcare settings
title_short Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric evaluation in Kuwaiti public healthcare settings
title_sort hospital survey on patient safety culture: psychometric evaluation in kuwaiti public healthcare settings
topic Health Services Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31152040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028666
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