The Conducive Factors to The Patient Safety Culture in the Department of Corrections Hospital
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The objectives of this research were 1) to study the conducive factors to the patient safety culture in the Department of Corrections Hospital (DCH). 2) to study the level of patient safety culture in the DCH, and 3) to study the relationships between these conducive factors to patient safety culture that affected the level of patient safety culture in the DHC. The research samples involved 181 DCH personnels that comprised of administrators, health professions, medical assistants, and general administrative staff with over one-year tenure. The research also used survey-based questionnaires as a tool for data collection and statistical procedures for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson correlation coefficient .
This research found what follows. First, the overall conducive factors to the patient safety culture in DCH was at high level; when subdivided into individual aspects, the average of each aspect was also at high level, namely work-team, task, patient and services, technology and equipment, organization, and environment. Second, the overall patient safety culture in DCH was at high level; when subdivided into individual aspects, the average of each aspect was also at high level, namely high-level administrators’ support, perception of safety environment in the organization, unit manager’s promotion of safety, impact from event reports, learning culture, reporting culture, and safety learning behaviors. Third, the overall relationships of the conducive factors to patient safety culture and the patient safety culture in DCH was at high level.