Patient safety culture in psychiatric hospitals in Slovenia from a viewpoint of psychiatrists and nurses: A cross-sectional study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Patient safety is considered to be crucial to health care quality. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture is generally used to assess the safety culture in somatic hospitals and unit level. The present study investigates the correlation between physicians and nurse providers in patient safety culture in all Slovenian psychiatric hospitals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A quantitative cross-sectional, non-experimental study was conducted between November 2017 and February 2018 involving 434 (89.00%) nurses and 55 (11.00%) physicians from six psychiatric hospitals in Slovenia. We used the Slovenian version of the questionnaire of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis for Slovenian psychiatry has given ten dimensions with 40 items. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that four psychiatric hospitals have a poor opinion on the "Management Support for Patient Safety" (F = 4.746, p <0.005). But depending on gender, women on average have a statistically significantly better opinion about the dimension "Management Support for Patient Safety" than men (t -1,995, p <0,047). There are also significant statistical differences between health care professionals who work in locked wards in regard to the two dimensions "Staff Overload and Response to Errors*" (F = 6.557, p = 0.002) and "Teamwork Between Organisational Units of the Hospital*" (F = 5.681, p = 0.004). CONCLUSION: This is the first study on perception of patient safety culture in psychiatric hospitals in Slovenia. Significant statistical differences were identified in seven out of ten dimensions of patient safety culture perception.
Source: Psychiatria Danubina
Authors: Jure Rašić, Andrej Robida, Nikolina Rijavec, Andrej Kastelic, Društvo SEEA NET, Radomlje, Slovenia
Institution: University Psychiatric Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medical Services
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416783337
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