Construction of a Scale Assessing Patients’ Perceptions Regarding Sanitation and Hygiene in a Clinical Setting

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‘Development and psychometric evaluation of the safety feeling scale in adult patients at hospital: Exploratory sequential mixed method’

“…There are studies on patient safety culture among healthcare providers and influencing factors, such as the relationship between nurse and patient, hand hygiene and falling out of bed (Granel-Giménez et al, 2022;Wang & Tao, 2017;Waterson et al, 2019). However, patients' perceptions play an important role in their awareness of the overt and covert problems in healthcare settings (Asiamah et al, 2022;Butler et al, 2022). 'Being safe' is not the same as 'feeling safe (Dabaghi et al, 2020).…”