dc.contributor.author | Smits, Marleen | |
dc.contributor.author | Keizer, Ellen | |
dc.contributor.author | Giesen, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Deilkås, Ellen C Tveter | |
dc.contributor.author | Hofoss, Dag | |
dc.contributor.author | Bondevik, Gunnar Tschudi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-11T12:28:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-11T12:28:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-02-16 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Smits, M., Keizer, E., Giesen, P., Deilkas, E. C., Hofoss, D., & Bondevik, G. T. (2017). The psychometric properties of the 'safety attitudes questionnaire' in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands. PLoS One, 12(2), e0172390. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172390 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7270 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background
The 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.
Design
Cross-sectional observational study using a web-survey.
Setting
Sixteen out-of-hours general practitioner cooperatives and two call centers in the Netherlands.
Participants
Primary healthcare providers in out-of-hours services.
Main outcome measures
Item-descriptive statistics, factor loadings, Cronbach’s alpha scores, corrected item-total correlations, scale correlations.
Results
The 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.
Conclusions
The 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. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | PLOS | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | PloS ONE;12(2) | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
This is a postprint version of an article originally published at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172390 | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700 | en |
dc.subject | Artikkel | en |
dc.title | The psychometric properties of the 'safety Attitudes questionnaire' in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172390 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1472299 | |