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VALIDATION OF THE SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE (SHORT FORM 2006) IN MANAGEMENT STAFF OF CROATIAN HOSPITALS ; VALIDACIJA UPITNIKA SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE 2006 (KRATKI OBLIK) KOD MENADŽMENTA HRVATSKIH BOLNICA
Most healthcare organizations lack the ability to evaluate the safety of care they provide to their patients. Safety climate may be interpreted as the measurable part of safety culture. Healthcare professionals’ perception of the safety climate has been used as a tool to develop the instruments to measure patient safety climate in healthcare. Safety Attitudes Questionnaire 2006 Short Form (SAQ) has been considered a reliable and sensitive tool to assess safety attitudes. It has been used to explore the relationship between safety climate scores and patient outcomes and has also become the most commonly used self-reported psychometric questionnaire that measures safety attitudes in front-line workers. SAQ has been proven to possess good psychometric properties also when translated. This study represents a national cross-sectional on-line survey about the safety attitudes of the management staff of Croatian hospitals, based on the SAQ. The aim of this study was to establish the validity of the SAQ translated to the Croatian language by evaluating its psychometric properties in a sample of the hospital management staff of Croatian hospitals. Correlation between SAQ factors was comparable to that in SAQ studies in other countries. Correlation between SAQ factors was comparable to that in other SAQ studies. Yet, the overall score in Croatia was higher for most of the factors, with the exception of Stress Recognition. Along with the development of quality and safety in Croatian hospitals, future data on patient outcomes should allow for further validation studies, linking them with the SAQ-scores. ; Većina zdravstvenih ustanova nema mogućnosti objektivne procjene sigurnosti skrbi koju pružaju svojim pacijentima. Klima ili ozračje sigurnosti može se tumačiti kao onaj dio kulture sigurnosti koji se može izmjeriti. Percepcija zdravstvenih djelatnika o ozračju sigurnosti koristi se kao alat za razvoj instrumenata mjerenja ozračja sigurnosti pacijenata u zdravstvenom sustavu. Safety Attitudes Questionnaire 2006 Short Form (SAQ) smatra se pouzdanim i osjetljivim alatom za procjenu stavova o sigurnosti. Koristi se za istraživanje povezanosti rezultata ozračja sigurnosti ishoda po pacijenta, te predstavlja najčešće korišteni psihometrijski upitnik za mjerenje stavova u djelatnika koji su u praksi. Dokazano je da SAQ posjeduje dobre psihometrijske karakteristike i nakon prevođenja na druge jezike. Ovo je na SAQ temeljeno, on-line, nacionalno, presječno (cross-sectional) anketno istraživanje stavova o sigurnosti bolničkih rukovoditelja u Republici Hrvatskoj. Cilj je istraživanja validirati SAQ preveden na hrvatski jezik vrednovanjem psihometrijskih obilježja upitnika na uzorku osoblja zaposlenog na rukovodećim radnim mjestima u hrvatskim bolnicama. Međusobna povezanost SAQ faktora usporediva je sa SAQ istraživanjima provedenima u drugim državama. Međutim, sveukupni je rezultat u Hrvatskoj viši za većinu faktora, s izuzetkom prepoznavanja stresa. Paralelno s razvojem kvalitete i sigurnosti u hrvatskim bolnicama, u budućnosti dostupni podaci trebali bi omogućiti daljnja validacijska istraživanja, povezujući ih s rezultatima SAQ-a.
VALIDATION OF THE SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE (SHORT FORM 2006) IN MANAGEMENT STAFF OF CROATIAN HOSPITALS ; VALIDACIJA UPITNIKA SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE 2006 (KRATKI OBLIK) KOD MENADŽMENTA HRVATSKIH BOLNICA
Most healthcare organizations lack the ability to evaluate the safety of care they provide to their patients. Safety climate may be interpreted as the measurable part of safety culture. Healthcare professionals’ perception of the safety climate has been used as a tool to develop the instruments to measure patient safety climate in healthcare. Safety Attitudes Questionnaire 2006 Short Form (SAQ) has been considered a reliable and sensitive tool to assess safety attitudes. It has been used to explore the relationship between safety climate scores and patient outcomes and has also become the most commonly used self-reported psychometric questionnaire that measures safety attitudes in front-line workers. SAQ has been proven to possess good psychometric properties also when translated. This study represents a national cross-sectional on-line survey about the safety attitudes of the management staff of Croatian hospitals, based on the SAQ. The aim of this study was to establish the validity of the SAQ translated to the Croatian language by evaluating its psychometric properties in a sample of the hospital management staff of Croatian hospitals. Correlation between SAQ factors was comparable to that in SAQ studies in other countries. Correlation between SAQ factors was comparable to that in other SAQ studies. Yet, the overall score in Croatia was higher for most of the factors, with the exception of Stress Recognition. Along with the development of quality and safety in Croatian hospitals, future data on patient outcomes should allow for further validation studies, linking them with the SAQ-scores. ; Većina zdravstvenih ustanova nema mogućnosti objektivne procjene sigurnosti skrbi koju pružaju svojim pacijentima. Klima ili ozračje sigurnosti može se tumačiti kao onaj dio kulture sigurnosti koji se može izmjeriti. Percepcija zdravstvenih djelatnika o ozračju sigurnosti koristi se kao alat za razvoj instrumenata mjerenja ozračja sigurnosti pacijenata u zdravstvenom sustavu. Safety Attitudes Questionnaire 2006 Short Form (SAQ) smatra se pouzdanim i osjetljivim alatom za procjenu stavova o sigurnosti. Koristi se za istraživanje povezanosti rezultata ozračja sigurnosti ishoda po pacijenta, te predstavlja najčešće korišteni psihometrijski upitnik za mjerenje stavova u djelatnika koji su u praksi. Dokazano je da SAQ posjeduje dobre psihometrijske karakteristike i nakon prevođenja na druge jezike. Ovo je na SAQ temeljeno, on-line, nacionalno, presječno (cross-sectional) anketno istraživanje stavova o sigurnosti bolničkih rukovoditelja u Republici Hrvatskoj. Cilj je istraživanja validirati SAQ preveden na hrvatski jezik vrednovanjem psihometrijskih obilježja upitnika na uzorku osoblja zaposlenog na rukovodećim radnim mjestima u hrvatskim bolnicama. Međusobna povezanost SAQ faktora usporediva je sa SAQ istraživanjima provedenima u drugim državama. Međutim, sveukupni je rezultat u Hrvatskoj viši za većinu faktora, s izuzetkom prepoznavanja stresa. Paralelno s razvojem kvalitete i sigurnosti u hrvatskim bolnicama, u budućnosti dostupni podaci trebali bi omogućiti daljnja validacijska istraživanja, povezujući ih s rezultatima SAQ-a.
VALIDATION OF THE SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE (SHORT FORM 2006) IN MANAGEMENT STAFF OF CROATIAN HOSPITALS ; VALIDACIJA UPITNIKA SAFETY ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE 2006 (KRATKI OBLIK) KOD MENADŽMENTA HRVATSKIH BOLNICA
Bulajić, Maša (author) / Lazibat, Tonći (author) / Plavec, Davor (author)
2018-07-15
Poslovna izvrsnost : znanstveni časopis za promicanje kulture kvalitete i poslovne izvrsnosti ; ISSN 1846-3355 (Print) ; ISSN 1848-9060 (Online) ; Volume 12 ; Issue 1
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