Flaws and all: How mindfulness reduces error hiding by enhancing authentic functioning.

Abstract

Hiding errors can undermine safety by amplifying the risks of undetected errors. This article extends research on occupational safety by investigating error hiding in hospitals and applies self-determination theory to examine how mindfulness decreases error hiding through authentic functioning. We examined this research model in a randomized control trial (mindfulness training vs. active control group vs. waitlist control group) within a hospital setting. First, we used latent growth modeling to confirm that our variables were related as hypothesized, both statically or cross-sectionally as well as dynamically as they evolved over time. Next, we analyzed whether changes in these variables were a function of the intervention and confirmed the effects of the mindfulness intervention on authentic functioning and indirectly on error hiding. To elaborate on the role of authentic functioning, in a third step, we qualitatively explored the phenomenological experience of change experienced by participants in mindfulness and Pilates training. Our findings reveal that error hiding is attenuated because mindfulness encourages a receptive view of one’s whole self, and authentic functioning enables an open and nondefensive way of relating to positive and negative information about oneself. These results add to research on mindfulness in organizations, error hiding, and occupational safety.

Effective health communication for age‐related macular degeneration: An exploratory qualitative study

“…To ensure rigour in the research, a structured approach to Grounded Theory known as the ‘Gioia Methodology’ was applied 35 . Although originating in Organisation Studies, the Gioia Methodology has been adopted in healthcare including pharmacy, 36,37 midwifery 38 and psychology 39 . Central to Gioia Methodology is the generation of a ‘data structure’ diagram that summarises the trail of evidence from interview quotes to theoretical abstraction so that readers can be assured that ‘ This is what the informants told us .…”