• Bmc Fam Pract · Sep 2020

    Observational Study

    Patient safety culture in primary and home care services.

    • Letícia Martins Lousada, Francisco Clécio da Silva Dutra, Beatriz Viana da Silva, Natália Lúcia Lima de Oliveira, Ismael Brioso Bastos, Patrícia Freire de Vasconcelos, and Rhanna Emanuela Fontenele Lima de Carvalho.
    • Ceara State University, Mister Hull avenue. 2933, apto 401b, violete, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
    • Bmc Fam Pract. 2020 Sep 12; 21 (1): 188.

    BackgroundSafety culture is still a poorly studied subject in primary care and home care, although these settings are considered gateways to access to healthcare. This study aims to evaluate safety culture in primary and home care settings.MethodsAn observational cross-sectional study was carried out with 147 professionals from nine districts covered by one home care program and six primary healthcare centres. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) was used to evaluate the safety culture, in which scores ≥75 are indicative of a positive safety culture.ResultsA total of 56 (86,1%) questionnaires returned from the home care professionals and 91 (86,6%) from the primary care professionals. The Job satisfaction domain was the best evaluated, achieving a score of 88.8 in home care and 75.1 in primary care. The achievement of high scores on Safety Climate, Job Satisfaction, Teamwork Climate, and Total SAQ was related to male gender, and time of professional experience of three to 4 years. Perception of management and Working conditions had the lowest scores, and this result was related with long time of experience.ConclusionsIt is concluded that professionals working in home care gave higher scores for safety culture in their workplace than the primary care workers.

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