Beliefs of healthcare professionals about training and institutional development actions

Abstract

Abstract:Objective: measure the beliefs of healthcare teams about training and institutional development actions. Methods: A quantitative, descriptive and correlational research was composed among 937 healthcare professionals who work in public and private institutions in all three healthcare levels. A previously validated instrument used in the data collection process was revalidated in this study. Data were hence submitted to descriptive and inferential statistics, and factor analysis. Results: Three factors emerged: Beliefs about the contributions of training programs both to the individual and the organization; Beliefs about the assessment process for training needs; and Beliefs about training results and processes. The study revealed that professionals showed strong favorable beliefs about the training system. Beliefs are increasingly stronger as the complexity level of the healthcare practice increases. The variables care level, function, time past graduation and work time, work shift, participation in training programs, and length of training time in the past 12 months showed significant differences regarding the beliefs of the professionals about training processes in at least one of the factors. Conclusions: Comprehension of the beliefs of healthcare professionals enables not only the implementation of managerial actions directed to the maintenance of favorable beliefs, but the change of unfavorable ones.

Evidence of Validity of the Nursing Beliefs Scale in Patient Safety Training

“…The final model of the ECST with a focus on patient safety showed good indexes of adjustment and maintained the same three factors of the scale found in the study of the ECST of health professionals 4 , as they presented factor loads above 0.6. Moreover, Cronbach's Alpha and Mac Donald's Omega coefficients indicated good reliability properties.…”

“…8 In 2015, in order to support theoretical concepts to define educational policies in health services, ECST was adapted for health professionals through semantic evidence and psychometric validity of the scale, showing itself to be reliable, with 32 items in the same three dimensions. 4 ECST was adapted to the patient safety theme through changes in terms in the items, based on a literature review on the subject, proceeding to a new verification of evidence of semantic and content validity by three experts.…”

“…Thus, recognizing the importance of educational actions, it is relevant to identify the factors that affect them, especially those related to patient safety, such as the beliefs reported in studies that point them as an important variable about training at work. [3][4] Beliefs are defined as a set of information that people have about a particular object and are mediators in the relationship between attitude, intention and behavior. Beliefs can be shared and reconstructed 5 , impacting the purpose of applying or not what is believed.…”

“…Reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed to investigate the psychometric properties for construct evaluation. The factorial structure of the ECST was assessed through the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) sample adequacy measure; then, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed, specifying the ECST model in the health area 4 , without two items excluded in the scale adaptation step to the context of patient safety.…”