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The psychometric properties of the 'safety attitudes questionnaire' in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands.
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- Review: application of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in primary care - a systematic synthesis on validity, descriptive and comparative results, and variance across organisational units.BMC primary care · 2024Pooled it
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- Patient Safety Climate in Danish Primary Care: Adaption and Validation of the Danish Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ-DK-PRIM).Clinical epidemiology · 2024Article
- Determining the psychometric properties of safety attitudes questionnaire in NICUs.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Safe Medication in Nursing Home Residents Through the Development and Evaluation of an Intervention (SAME): Protocol for a Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Study With a Cocreative Approach.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Variation in Perception of Safety Culture in Out-of-hours Family Medicine Service in Croatia.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2021Article
- Safety culture transformation-The impact of training on explicit and implicit safety attitudes.Human factors and ergonomics in manufacturing · 2021Article
- Patient safety culture in Italian out-of-hours primary care service: a national cross-sectional survey study.BJGP open · 2020Article
- Patient safety culture in primary and home care services.BMC family practice · 2020Observational
- Psychometric properties of the Georgian version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2020Article
- The safety attitudes questionnaire for out-of-hours service in primary healthcare-Psychometric properties of the Croatian version.PloS one · 2020Observational
- Safety culture in the primary health care settings based on workers with a leadership role: the psychometric properties of the Slovenian-language version of the safety attitudes questionnaire - short form.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Job satisfaction and stressors for working in out-of-hours care - a pilot study with general practitioners in a rural area of Germany.BMC family practice · 2018Article
- Patient safety culture in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional survey.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2018Article
- Patient Safety Culture in Slovenian out-of-hours Primary Care Clinics.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the most widely used instruments to assess safety culture among healthcare providers. The ambulatory version of the SAQ (SAQ-AV) can be used in the primary care setting. Our study objective was to examine the underlying factors and psychometric properties of the Dutch translation of the SAQ-AV in out-of-hours primary care services.
designCross-sectional observational study using a web-survey.
settingSixteen out-of-hours general practitioner cooperatives and two call centers in the Netherlands.
participantsPrimary healthcare providers in out-of-hours services.
main outcome measuresItem-descriptive statistics, factor loadings, Cronbach's alpha scores, corrected item-total correlations, scale correlations.
resultsThe questionnaire was answered by 853 (43.2%) healthcare professionals. In the factor analyses, 784 respondents were included; mainly general practitioners (N = 470) and triage nurses (N = 189). Items were included in the analyses based on question type and results from previous studies. Five factors were drawn with reliability scores between .49 and .86 and a good construct validity. The five factors covered 27 of the 62 questionnaire items, with three to five items per factor.
conclusionsThe Dutch translation of the SAQ-AV, with five factors, seems to be a reliable tool for measuring patient safety culture and guide quality improvement interventions in out-of-hours primary care services. The Dutch factor structure differed from the original SAQ-AV and other translated versions. In future studies, the questionnaire should be validated further by examining if there is a relationship between the responses on the SAQ-AV, patient experiences, and the occurrence of adverse events.
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