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. 2024 Dec 6:12:1434387.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1434387. eCollection 2024.

Nurses' adverse event reporting attitudes and related factors: a cross-sectional study in maternal and child specialized hospitals in China

Fang Wu  1 , Xin Wang  1 , Shaochuan Chen  1 , Huimin Li  1 , Huiqiong Xie  1
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Nurses' adverse event reporting attitudes and related factors: a cross-sectional study in maternal and child specialized hospitals in China

Fang Wu et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the current situation of nurses' attitude toward adverse event reporting and identify its related factors in maternal and child specialized hospitals.

Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among 943 nurses in 18 second-level and above maternal and child specialized hospitals in Sichuan province in China. The questionnaire included general information and the Chinese version of Reporting of Clinical Adverse Effects Scale (C-RoCAES).

Results: The total score of adverse events reported by nurses was 63.98 ± 8.77. The scores of the dimensions from high to low were reporting standard (3.13 ± 0.46), reporting impact (2.80 ± 0.54), reporting purpose (1.98 ± 0.66), and reporting environment (1.98 ± 0.42). Educational background (β = -1.87, p < 0.001), professional title (β = -3.51, p < 0.001), and adverse event experience (β = -7.05, p < 0.001) were the positively associated with higher levels of nurses' attitude toward adverse event reporting in maternal and child specialized hospitals (p < 0.05).

Conclusion: The attitude of nurses in maternal and child specialized hospitals to report adverse events is at the middle level. Hospital managers should improve the reporting standards for adverse events, improve the hospital safety culture, strengthen the relevant training for nurses with low education and low professional titles, so as to improve nurses' awareness of adverse event reporting and reporting rate.

Keywords: adverse event; maternal and child specialized hospital; nurse; related factors; reporting attitude.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any comme rcial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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