Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes report on patient care and safety in undergraduate students: validating the modified APSQ-III questionnaire

Elorrio, Ezequiel García; Macchiavello, Dolores; Rodríguez, Viviana; Catalano, Yael; Corna, Giuliana; Dahinten, Josefina; Ontivero, Marina

doi:10.5867/medwave.2016.11.6809

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“…Similarly, in a report investigating maternal mortality in the Gaza-Strip, clinicians reported that they felt unsupported by management in case of adverse events 48. However, similar discrepancies between the acknowledgement that errors are inevitable, but that professionals should not make mistakes were also found internationally,28 31 33 35 49 50 possibly reflecting the ideal for professionals not to make mistakes. The understanding of this discrepancy, between error inevitability and the ideal of professionals avoiding them, needs to be focused on in further training as well as by developing more effective systems to deal with errors openly and learn from them 51 52…”

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Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

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ObjectivesThis study examined the attitudes of nurses and doctors to key patient safety concepts, evaluated differences and similarities between professional groups and assessed positive and negative attitudes to identify target areas for future training.SettingFour major governmental hospitals in the Gaza-Strip.ParticipantsA convenience sample of 424 nurses and 150 physicians working for at least 6 months in the study hospitals.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome measures were mean scores with SD as measured for individual items and nine main patient safety domains assessed by the Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire. Secondary outcome measures were the proportions of doctors and nurses, that gave a positive response to each item, represented as percentage of each group.ResultsNurses and doctors held moderately positive attitudes towards patient safety with five out of nine domain scores >3.5 of 5. Doctors showed slightly more positive attitudes than nurses, despite a smaller proportion of doctors having received patient safety training with 37.5% compared with 41.9% of nurses. Both professions displayed their most positive patient safety attitudes in the same domains (‘team functioning’ and ‘working hours as a cause for error’), as well as their two most negative attitudes (‘importance of patient safety in the curriculum’ and ‘professional incompetence as a cause of error’), demonstrating significant deficits in understanding medical errors. A specific challenge will be the negative attitudes of both professions towards patient safety training for wider dissemination of this content in the postgraduate curriculum.ConclusionPatient safety attitudes were moderately positive in both professional groups. Target of future patient safety training should be enhancing the understanding of error in medicine. Any training has to be motivating and relevant for clinicians, demonstrating its importance in ongoing professional learning.

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Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

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“…Potential comparisons with other studies having used the APSQ framework are unsuitable, since some other authors used the APSQ-IV instead of the APSQ-III assessment tool [ 17 ], calculated their results from the raw scores of the different items and/or dimensions [ 14 ] instead of transforming scores into average positive response rates based on Nordén–Häag criteria, or adopted the aforementioned criteria but did not consider items with reverse scores, so that responses were all systematically grouped into agree (4 or 5) and disagree (1 or 2) to obtain the overall percentages [ 20 ], a fact that hinders any possible comparison through homogeneous scoring methods.…”

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“…Several instruments to assess the knowledge and attitudes towards patient safety currently exist [ 10 , 11 ]. In this framework, the “Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire” (APSQ-III, hereinafter) is a widely used instrument with outstanding psychometric properties [ 12 ] and has been validated in Spanish in a version with 7 response options [ 13 ] and with 5 response options [ 14 ].…”

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Knowledge and Attitudes towards Patient Safety among Students in Physical Therapy in Spain: A Longitudinal Study

Montilla-Herrador

Lozano-Meca

Baño-Alcaraz

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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(1) Background: Patient safety is a discipline of health care management aiming to prevent and reduce errors and harm to patients. The assessment of knowledge and attitudes on patient safety among students in physical therapy is still scarce; no studies have yet explored the changes that internship periods may produce. Objectives: 1. to determine the attitudes and knowledge of students in physical therapy with respect to patient safety in a Spanish University; and 2. to explore changes following a practical internship period. (2) Methods: Longitudinal study. Data from the Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire III (APSQ-III) before and after the internship period were obtained from an initial sample of 125 students and average positive response rates were compared. (3) Results: “Team functioning”, “Importance of patient safety in the curriculum”, and “Error inevitability” displayed the highest scores, in accordance with the current literature. After the internship period, the dimensions “Patient safety training received” (p = 0.001), “Error reporting confidence” (p = 0.044), and “Professional incompetence as an error cause” (p = 0.027) showed significant changes. (4) Conclusions: The current study, highlighting areas of strengths and weaknesses in the knowledge and attitudes of students in physical therapy towards patient safety, may be a foundation to adopt tailored programs to enhance students’ competencies in patient safety.

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“…Abbreviations and other shorthand notations on prescriptions and orders increase the risk of medication errors. World Health Organization has published the curriculum for medical students working in health care institution dealing with patient care [3][4] .…”

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Pre-Clinical Medical Students’ Perception regarding Patient Safety in Primary Care

Jahan¹,

Aguiar²,

Alshehabi³

et al. 2018

BJMHR

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Patient safety is a new and challenging discipline in primary care. Medical students need to understand and demonstrate appropriate patient safety skills in professional education. Preclinical students at Oman Medical College (OMC) have clinical skills training in primary care as well as in the hospital. The present study aimed to seek pre-clinical medical students' perceptions of their individual performance at a range of safety skills. A cross sectional study conducted at OMC. Data was collected by self-administrated questionnaire to a simple random sample of 50 medical students in pre-clinical years after finishing Family Medicine rotation. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Most participants (88%) agreed the importance of patient safety. Self-rated general knowledge on patient safety on good level (72%) compared to (27%) for the specific knowledge issues score. In medical error management 75% willing to report medical errors, more than half willing to disclose error to patient and faculty and 89% agreed introducing patient safety topic in undergraduate medical schools curricula. Students had a favorable opinion of their own safety skills. However, specific knowledge question revealed some misconceptions. Most participants recognized the importance of patient safety topic in curriculum. Students are fair and honest to report medical errors. They considered competent physician don't make errors.

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Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes report on patient care and safety in undergraduate students: validating the modified APSQ-III questionnaire

Abstract: This study shows that the APSQ-III modified survey is valid and could be used in Argentina and the region to measure the impact of incorporating patient safety topics in the medical curriculum.

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Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge and Attitudes towards Patient Safety among Students in Physical Therapy in Spain: A Longitudinal Study

Pre-Clinical Medical Students’ Perception regarding Patient Safety in Primary Care

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