Department of Health Systems Management, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jul 18;10:953393. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.953393. eCollection 2022.
Patient safety is a serious concern in the health care industry. To enhance patient safety, healthcare providers are expected to minimize accidental harm to patients and enhance the quality of patient-centered care. The main objective of this study is to explore the awareness of the patient safety culture among healthcare providers. It is further intended to assess key fields and factors that hinder patient safety adoption and determine the effects of demographic factors on healthcare providers' awareness of patient safety culture. This study applied a cross-sectional quantitative design. It was conducted in a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The participants consisted of all healthcare providers working in a specific tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia. A random sampling technique was applied in this study. The study sample size was 409 participants. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used to collect the required data. The -tests, ANOVA. And regression was used. The study found that there is a moderate level of patient safety culture awareness among healthcare providers. Moreover, the findings also revealed that the age group "31-40" showed statistically different awareness levels as compared to the "more than 50 years' age group" ( = 0.012). Also, this study has found that gender and education have a significant influence on the awareness level of patient safety culture while position and work area have no influence on the awareness level of patient safety culture among healthcare providers. Managers in healthcare institutions should develop speeder response plans and make them part of the patient safety culture. Institutions offering bachelor's degrees and postgraduate in nursing should pay more attention to the subject of patient safety. The government healthcare sector, together with the private healthcare sector, should continuously train healthcare providers on patient safety procedures to improve the patient safety culture. Healthcare providers should be encouraged to report errors made during diagnosis or treatments to avoid them in the future.
患者安全是医疗保健行业的一个严重问题。为了提高患者安全，医疗保健提供者应尽量减少对患者的意外伤害，并提高以患者为中心的护理质量。本研究的主要目的是探讨医疗保健提供者对患者安全文化的认识。它还旨在评估阻碍患者安全采用的关键领域和因素，并确定人口统计学因素对医疗保健提供者对患者安全文化认识的影响。本研究采用了横断面定量设计。它在沙特阿拉伯利雅得的一家三级医院进行。参与者包括在沙特阿拉伯一家特定的三级医院工作的所有医疗保健提供者。本研究采用了随机抽样技术。研究样本量为 409 名参与者。使用了有效且可靠的问卷来收集所需数据。使用了 -检验、方差分析和回归。研究发现，医疗保健提供者对患者安全文化的认识处于中等水平。此外，研究结果还表明，年龄组“31-40 岁”与“50 岁以上”年龄组相比，表现出统计学上不同的意识水平（=0.012）。此外，本研究还发现，性别和教育对患者安全文化的认识水平有显著影响，而职位和工作区域对医疗保健提供者的患者安全文化的认识水平没有影响。医疗机构的管理人员应制定更快的应对计划，并将其纳入患者安全文化。提供护理学学士和研究生学位的机构应更加关注患者安全问题。政府医疗保健部门与私营医疗保健部门应共同不断培训医疗保健提供者有关患者安全程序的知识，以改善患者安全文化。应鼓励医疗保健提供者报告诊断或治疗过程中出现的错误，以避免今后再次发生。
