Health care professionals′attitude of patients involvement in patient safety and its influencing ;factors / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate health care professionals′attitude of patient involvement in patient safety and analyze its influencing factors. Methods A convenience sample of 946 health care professionals recruited from twelve hospitals in Shanghai was employed for a cross-sectional survey. Results The general attitudes of patient involvement in patient safety scored 3.86 ±0.56, the perception of the content of patient involvement scored 3.97±0.54, the average score of caring involvement (4.12±0.59) was larger than the average score of decisive involvement (3.88±0.58), the average score of complaining involvement was the least (3.39±0.81), the difference had statistical significance (F=583.797, P<0.01). The regression analysis showed that identity, professional title, hospital grade influenced health care professionals′general attitude of patient involvement in patient safety and that identity, hospital grade influenced health care professionals′attitude of the content of patient involvement. Conclusions In health care professionals′opinion, patient involvement in patient safety has both advantages and disadvantages. They preferred to caring involvement, followed by decisive involvement, then complaining involvement. So, hospital managers should view patient involvement in patient safety discriminately and construct rational involvement model ofpatients willing, medical support, promote interaction and harmony build.