Patient safety attitude among healthcare workers at different levels of healthcare in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt

Abstract

Background: Patient safety (PS) has been identified as a significant healthcare challenge. A good safety attitude helps healthcare workers (HCWs) to decrease medical errors.Aim: This study aimed to assess the PS attitude and identify its determinants among HCWs.Setting: This study was conducted in Sharqia Governorate at different levels of health care.Methods: This was a comparative cross-sectional study that involved240 HCWs selected after using a multistage cluster sampling technique from Sharqia Governorate.In ordertto assess the respondents’ attitudes towards PS, the modified Chinese Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (CSAQ) was used.Results: The scale with the highest percentage of positive responses, on average, was safety climate (49.59%). The study found a statistically significant association between the level of health care and mean scores of ‘teamwork climate, perception of management, job satisfaction, working conditions, and stress recognition’ and the overall CSAQ score. In regression analysis, the highest degree of education and job type were significant predictors of PS attitude among the HCWs under study (p = 0.031 and 0.011, respectively).Conclusion: According to the study’s findings, PS is low among HCWs in both healthcare units and hospitals, with a significantly higher score among hospital workers than among primary care workers. All PS composites need improvement starting with regular assessment of PS culture along with continuous monitoring.

Nurses' Awareness, Commitment, and Attitudes Regarding Patients Safety Measures

“…Additionally, Teleş & Kaya (40) found that the participants had 6 years of professional experience and worked for 60hrs or more per week, this indicates the shortage of nurses as a global and or may be increased demands of nurses services as a response to increasing populations and number of hospitals. The current result clarified that less than half of the studied nurses didn't receive training courses regarding patient safety, the result was similar to the research of Hussein, et al (13) entitled" Patient safety attitude among healthcare workers at different levels of healthcare in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, reported that approximately fifth have prior training. This result indicates the need for continuously establishing more training programs on patient safety issues for all healthcare workers at all healthcare organizations.…”

“…This result conflicts with Teleş & Kaya (40), , who found that almost half of the participants assigned a patient safety grade of acceptable. Additionally, this contrasted with Hussein, et al (13) who revealed that none of the participants rated the working unit as -excellent‖ in patient safety while more than half of them perceived it as acceptable, and a third rated it as very good. Moreover, Ali, et al (42) found that many of the surveyed participants perceived that their working unit had an acceptable patient safety grade.…”

“…Globally, all healthcare providers, including nurses, are vulnerable to committing different medical errors. Many healthcare practitioners, including nurses, have reduced knowledge levels of patient safety 13 More studies are required to assess and enhance nurses' adherence to patient-safety principles and their effects on patient safetyoutcomes 14 .…”

Patient safety culture awareness among healthcare providers in a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

“…Moreover, Tukey's Honest Significant Difference test was run to identify which group means are significantly different from another group's means. Tables 4,5 show the multiple comparison analysis of the variable of age and education level. As the Tukey post-hoc test shows in Table 4, the 31-40 years age group showed statistically different awareness levels as compared to the "more than 50 years age group" (p = 0.012).…”

“…Alnasser et al observe that the costs due to medication errors are approximately 42 billion USD per year ( 4 ). In Saudi Arabia, specifically, a research study by Eldeeb et al reveals that many healthcare practitioners, including nurses, have reduced levels of patient safety ( 5 ). Similarly, Khalil and his colleagues observe that the most serious events within the Saudi Arabia healthcare industry are related to allergic reactions due to medication errors ( 6 ).…”