Climate Measurement of Patient Safety in the Health Service-Portuguese Version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire Short Form 2006

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.448
• Publication Date: 2015-10-20T20:45:13Z
• Authors: D Saraiva; A Almeida
• Keywords: Safety Culture; Content Validity

Patient safety is both a parameter embedded within the quality of care and priority health systems. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) - Short Form 2006 most widely rigorously validated instrument used to measure patient’s environment among providers. goal this study was translate, culturally adapt validate Portuguese context, thus creating SAQ version PT. For translation cultural adaptation process, methodological carried out based on recommendations Beaton et al. (2000), with following steps: translation, synthesis, back assessment by committee experts, pre-test submission reports instrument’s authors. validation, cross-sectional performed sample 623 professionals. fidelity adapted assessed through its internal consistency reproducibility, construct validity confirmatory factor analysis. successfully translated context. content ensured experts. Its confirmed Cronbach’s alpha 0,92 Pearson’s correlation coefficient in test-retest 0,99. Regarding different dimensions, there were positive significant correlations between all dimensions except for stress recognition dimension. analysis showed adjustment indexes that demonstrate rather good adequacy six-factor model (X2/df=1,864; GIF=0,908; CIF=0,951 RMSEA=0,047). – PT demonstrated psychometric properties, highly satisfactory auspicious results, allowing implementation as valid measurement tool field