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Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting

Safety culture has been shown to be related to patient outcomes and Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the measures of safety culture that has good psychometric properties. The present study attempts to adapt the short version of the Generic SAQ for use in Malaysian healthcare setting. T...

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Main Authors: Abd Hamid, Harris Shah, Che Kar, Che Surya, Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada
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spelling my.iium.irep.513662016-07-25T06:48:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51366/ Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting Abd Hamid, Harris Shah Che Kar, Che Surya Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada BF176 Psychological tests and testing Safety culture has been shown to be related to patient outcomes and Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the measures of safety culture that has good psychometric properties. The present study attempts to adapt the short version of the Generic SAQ for use in Malaysian healthcare setting. The process of adaptation included forward translation and backward translation method, followed by content validity analysis by seven subject matter experts. All 36 items of the SAQ was retained for the field test. The Malaysian SAQ (MSAQ) was distributed to 400 healthcare workers in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur. There were 126 returned and usable questionnaires (31.5% return rate). The internal consistency indices of the MSAQ is acceptable but two items were revised due to low corrected item-total correlation. The revised MSAQ and the Barriers to Medication Administration Error Reporting scale was administered to nurses (n=175, with 76.1% response rate) of two public hospitals in East Peninsula of Malaysia. Internal consistency of the dimensions improved to .71 to .91. Dimensions of MSAQ correlated negatively with the barriers to error reporting, providing evidence of convergent validity. Thus, the revised MSAQ is suggested to be used for research and interventions in Malaysian healthcare organizations.Safety culture has been shown to be related to patient outcomes and Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the measures of safety culture that has good psychometric properties. The present study attempts to adapt the short version of the Generic SAQ for use in Malaysian healthcare setting. The process of adaptation included forward translation and backward translation method, followed by content validity analysis by seven subject matter experts. All 36 items of the SAQ was retained for the field test. The Malaysian SAQ (MSAQ) was distributed to 400 healthcare workers in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur. There were 126 returned and usable questionnaires (31.5% return rate). The internal consistency indices of the MSAQ is acceptable but two items were revised due to low corrected item-total correlation. The revised MSAQ and the Barriers to Medication Administration Error Reporting scale was administered to nurses (n=175, with 76.1% response rate) of two public hospitals in East Peninsula of Malaysia. Internal consistency of the dimensions improved to .71 to .91. Dimensions of MSAQ correlated negatively with the barriers to error reporting, providing evidence of convergent validity. Thus, the revised MSAQ is suggested to be used for research and interventions in Malaysian healthcare organizations. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51366/1/51366_-Adaptation_and_validation_of_the_safety_attitude_questionnaire_%28SAQ%29_in_Malaysian_healthcare_setting.pdf Abd Hamid, Harris Shah and Che Kar, Che Surya and Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada (2016) Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting. Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 30 (1). pp. 17-29. ISSN 2289-8174 http://spaj.ukm.my/ppppm/jpm/article/view/179
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Abd Hamid, Harris Shah
Che Kar, Che Surya
Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada
Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
description Safety culture has been shown to be related to patient outcomes and Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the measures of safety culture that has good psychometric properties. The present study attempts to adapt the short version of the Generic SAQ for use in Malaysian healthcare setting. The process of adaptation included forward translation and backward translation method, followed by content validity analysis by seven subject matter experts. All 36 items of the SAQ was retained for the field test. The Malaysian SAQ (MSAQ) was distributed to 400 healthcare workers in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur. There were 126 returned and usable questionnaires (31.5% return rate). The internal consistency indices of the MSAQ is acceptable but two items were revised due to low corrected item-total correlation. The revised MSAQ and the Barriers to Medication Administration Error Reporting scale was administered to nurses (n=175, with 76.1% response rate) of two public hospitals in East Peninsula of Malaysia. Internal consistency of the dimensions improved to .71 to .91. Dimensions of MSAQ correlated negatively with the barriers to error reporting, providing evidence of convergent validity. Thus, the revised MSAQ is suggested to be used for research and interventions in Malaysian healthcare organizations.Safety culture has been shown to be related to patient outcomes and Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is one of the measures of safety culture that has good psychometric properties. The present study attempts to adapt the short version of the Generic SAQ for use in Malaysian healthcare setting. The process of adaptation included forward translation and backward translation method, followed by content validity analysis by seven subject matter experts. All 36 items of the SAQ was retained for the field test. The Malaysian SAQ (MSAQ) was distributed to 400 healthcare workers in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur. There were 126 returned and usable questionnaires (31.5% return rate). The internal consistency indices of the MSAQ is acceptable but two items were revised due to low corrected item-total correlation. The revised MSAQ and the Barriers to Medication Administration Error Reporting scale was administered to nurses (n=175, with 76.1% response rate) of two public hospitals in East Peninsula of Malaysia. Internal consistency of the dimensions improved to .71 to .91. Dimensions of MSAQ correlated negatively with the barriers to error reporting, providing evidence of convergent validity. Thus, the revised MSAQ is suggested to be used for research and interventions in Malaysian healthcare organizations.
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author Abd Hamid, Harris Shah
Che Kar, Che Surya
Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada
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Che Kar, Che Surya
Murad @ Mansor, Nor Shuhada
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title Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
title_short Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
title_full Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
title_fullStr Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
title_full_unstemmed Adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ) in Malaysian healthcare setting
title_sort adaptation and validation of the safety attitude questionnaire (saq) in malaysian healthcare setting
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51366/1/51366_-Adaptation_and_validation_of_the_safety_attitude_questionnaire_%28SAQ%29_in_Malaysian_healthcare_setting.pdf
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