Perceptions of patient safety culture among healthcare professionals in Ministry of Health hospitals in Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Abstract Background: Patient safety in hospitals is being jeopardized, since too many patients experience adverse events. Most of these adverse events arise from human factors, such as inefficient teamwork and communication failures, and the incidence of adverse events is greatest in the surgical area. Previous research has shown the effect of team training on patient safety culture and on different areas of teamwork. Limited research has investigated teamwork in surgical wards. The aim of this study was to evaluate the professional and organizational outcomes of a team training intervention among healthcare professionals in a surgical ward after 6 and 12 months. Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety 2.0 was used as a conceptual framework for the study.Methods: This study had a pre-post design with measurements at baseline and after 6 months and 12 months of intervention. The intervention was conducted in a urology and gastrointestinal surgery ward in Norway, and the study site was selected based on convenience and the leaders’ willingness to participate in the project. Survey data from healthcare professionals were used to evaluate the intervention. The organizational outcomes were measured by the unit-based sections of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture Questionnaire, and professional outcomes were measured by the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire and the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions in Teams Questionnaire. A paired t-test, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test, a generalized linear mixed model and linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data.Results: After six months, improvements were found in organizational outcomes in two patient safety dimensions. After 12 months, improvements were found in both organizational and professional outcomes, and these improvements occurred in three patient safety culture dimensions and in three teamwork dimensions. Furthermore, the results showed that one of the significant improved teamwork dimensions “Mutual Support” was associated with the Patient Safety Grade, after 12 months of intervention.Conclusion: These results demonstrate that the team training program had effect after 12 months of intervention. Future studies with larger sample sizes and stronger study designs are necessary to examine the causal effect of a team training intervention in this context.Trial registration number: ISRCTN13997367 (retrospectively registered)

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Job Demands, Burnout, and Teamwork in Healthcare Professionals Working in a General Hospital that Was Analysed At Two Points in Time

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.3889/oamjms.2018.159 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 723-729 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dragan Mijakoski ◽

Jovanka Karadzinska-Bislimovska ◽

Sasho Stoleski ◽

Jordan Minov ◽

Aneta Atanasovska ◽

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Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

General Hospital ◽

Emotional Exhaustion ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Time Lag ◽

Job Demands ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Patient Safety Culture ◽

Mean Values

AIM: The purpose of the paper was to assess job demands, burnout, and teamwork in healthcare professionals (HPs) working in a general hospital that was analysed at two points in time with a time lag of three years.METHODS: Time 1 respondents (N = 325) were HPs who participated during the first wave of data collection (2011). Time 2 respondents (N = 197) were HPs from the same hospital who responded at Time 2 (2014). Job demands, burnout, and teamwork were measured with Hospital Experience Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, respectively.RESULTS: Significantly higher scores of emotional exhaustion (21.03 vs. 15.37, t = 5.1, p < 0.001), depersonalization (4.48 vs. 2.75, t = 3.8, p < 0.001), as well as organizational (2.51 vs. 2.34, t = 2.38, p = 0.017), emotional (2.46 vs. 2.25, t = 3.68, p < 0.001), and cognitive (2.82 vs. 2.64, t = 2.68, p = 0.008) job demands were found at Time 2. Teamwork levels were similar at both points in time (Time 1 = 3.84 vs. Time 2 = 3.84, t = 0.043, p = 0.97).CONCLUSION: Actual longitudinal study revealed significantly higher mean values of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization in 2014 that could be explained by significantly increased job demands between analysed points in time.

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Assessment of Patient Safety Culture in Tertiary Health Care Settings in Taif City, Saudi Arabia

World Family Medicine Journal/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine ◽

10.5742/mewfm.2019.93673 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (9) ◽

pp. 4-11

Author(s):

Rabeah Alsofyani ◽

Atheer Alraqi ◽

Dalia El-Sayed Desouky

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Saudi Arabia ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Patient Safety Culture ◽

Health Care Settings

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Assessment of Nursesʼ Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture in a Saudi Arabia Hospital

Journal of Nursing Care Quality ◽

10.1097/ncq.0b013e3182855cde ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 272-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Ahmad E. Aboshaiqah ◽

Omar Ghazi Baker

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Patient Safety Culture

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A Perception of health care providers toward quality work environment and patients’ safety culture at hemodialysis units.

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol4.iss12.56 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (12) ◽

pp. 110-128

Author(s):

Maha Adel Salem ◽

Hala Ahmed Abdou ◽

Hoda Ibrahim El-Trawy

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Work Environment ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Nursing Staff ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Patient Safety Culture ◽

Practice Environment ◽

Care Providers ◽

Ministry Of Health ◽

Safety Work

Many changes have been made in the healthcare practice environment. Understanding of quality practice environment in hemodialysis units has certain implications for maximizing outcomes for clients, nurses, and systems. Developing quality practice environments takes time and commitment to promote and support patients’ safety. Hence improving safety patient culture is vital in dialysis units because it requires for reducing risks for harm, errors of patients and delivering high quality of patients care. The Study aimed to determine the perception of nursing staff’ toward quality practice environment and patients’ safety at Hemodialysis units. Methodology, data collection was utilized a descriptive correlational design for this study, all nursing staff amounted to (n= 90) They are classified into: all head nurses n = 7,, and all nurses who have either diploma (n = 40) or baccalaureate degree (n = 43) who are affiliated to all hemodialysis units (n =7) at Ministry of Health ,Egypt. A package composed of two instruments was used, namely: Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC). Results, the major findings indicated that there is a positive correlation significant among practice work environment and patient safety culture except for staffing and resource adequacy in all hemodialysis units of Ministry of Health Hospitals. Also, results point out that the organizational structure of the Ministry of Health Hospitals is characterized by unhealthy environment and unsafe climate that force the nursing staff to have low perception toward most of quality practice environment and patient safety culture factors. The study recommended that initiating a blame-free reporting system to prevent re-occurrence of problems and actions to eliminate them from the workplace by detecting, evaluating, preventing and treating safety work environment

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A Human Factors Intervention in a Hospital - Evaluating the Outcome of a TeamSTEPPS Program in a Surgical Ward

10.21203/rs.3.rs-19991/v3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Oddveig Reiersdal Aaberg ◽

Marie Louise Hall-Lord ◽

Sissel Iren Eikeland Husebø ◽

Randi Ballangrud

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Adverse Events ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Patient Safety Culture ◽

Organizational Outcomes ◽

Team Training ◽

Training Intervention ◽

Surgical Ward ◽

Professional Outcomes

Abstract Background: Patient safety in hospitals is being jeopardized, since too many patients experience adverse events. Most of these adverse events arise from human factors, such as inefficient teamwork and communication failures, and the incidence of adverse events is greatest in the surgical area. Previous research has shown the effect of team training on patient safety culture and on different areas of teamwork. Limited research has investigated teamwork in surgical wards. The aim of this study was to evaluate the professional and organizational outcomes of a team training intervention among healthcare professionals in a surgical ward after 6 and 12 months. Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety 2.0 was used as a conceptual framework for the study. Methods: This study had a pre-post design with measurements at baseline and after 6 months and 12 months of intervention. The intervention was conducted in a urology and gastrointestinal surgery ward in Norway, and the study site was selected based on convenience and the leaders’ willingness to participate in the project. Survey data from healthcare professionals were used to evaluate the intervention. The organizational outcomes were measured by the unit-based sections of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture Questionnaire, and professional outcomes were measured by the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire and the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions in Teams Questionnaire. A paired t-test, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test, a generalized linear mixed model and linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: After six months, improvements were found in organizational outcomes in two patient safety dimensions. After 12 months, improvements were found in both organizational and professional outcomes, and these improvements occurred in three patient safety culture dimensions and in three teamwork dimensions. Furthermore, the results showed that one of the significant improved teamwork dimensions “Mutual Support” was associated with the Patient Safety Grade, after 12 months of intervention.Conclusion: These results demonstrate that the team training program had effect after 12 months of intervention. Future studies with larger sample sizes and stronger study designs are necessary to examine the causal effect of a team training intervention in this context.

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