Validation study of the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ) in public hospitals of Heilongjiang province, China

PLoS One. 2017 Jun 21;12(6):e0179486. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179486. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Purpose: The objective of this study was to validate the reliability and validity of the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ) in Heilongjiang province, northern China.

Methods: The SAQ was distributed to 27 public hospitals in five cities across Heilongjiang province. The Cronbach's α, item-dimension and dimension-dimension correlations were calculated. Descriptive analyses and confirmatory factor analysis were also performed.

Results: The recovery rate of the questionnaire was 84.45%. The validity and reliability measures of the SAQ were acceptable. The goodness-of-fit index from the confirmatory factor analysis showed a reasonable model fit (CFI = 0.93, GFI = 0.91, RMSEA = 0.05). The Cronbach's α value for the scale was 0.91 and ranged from 0.66 to 0.91 for each of the scales. The SAQ showed good internal consistency reliability.

Conclusion: The SAQ had satisfactory psychometric properties and could be a useful tool to measure safety attitudes in public hospitals in Heilongjiang province in China.

Publication types

  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • China
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical*
  • Female
  • Hospitals, Public / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Patient Safety / statistics & numerical data*
  • Personnel, Hospital / psychology*
  • Psychometrics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant [71273002,71473064]; New Century Excellent Talents of University from the Ministry of Education, China, under grant[1252-NCET02]; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, under grant[2015M570211,2016T90181];and the Collaborative Innovation Centre of Social Risks Governance in Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.