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

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

Ying Li  1 , Xiaowen Zhao  2 , Xue Zhang  3 , Chi Zhang  4 , Hongkun Ma  5 , Mingli Jiao  1   6 , Xia Li  7 , Lijun Gao  8 , Mo Hao  9 , Jun Lv  9 , Yanming Zhao  10 , Yu Cui  8 , Jinghua Liu  11 , Zhaoquan Huang  12 , Wuxiang Shi  12 , Qunhong Wu  8 , Mei Yin  3
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Validation study of the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ) in public hospitals of Heilongjiang province, China

Ying Li et al. PLoS One. .

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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