Abstract:
Background
In modern medicine, there’s an important recognition on patient safety culture and patient’s participation in
treatment procedure. However, very little known about health care professionals’ attitude on patient
participation in such patient safety related procedures. Secondly, there’s a paucity of data about patient
involvement in patient safety. Hardly any research is done on Sri Lanka up to now. Instead of using actual
patient we decided to get the selected health care professionals perception on patient involvement in patient
safety as a potential patient.
Objective
The study aims to describe the perspectives of selected health care professionals on patient involvement in
patient safety as a potential patient at tertiary care women’s hospitals in Colombo district. Health Care
Professionals perspectives as a potential patient were assessed in 05 different areas. They were as follows. a.
To study the selected HCPs attitudes towards factual questions b. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes
towards challenging questions c. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards notifying questions d. To
study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards information provision questions e. To study the selected HCP’s
attitudes towards reporting incidents
Methods
This is a hospital-based descriptive, cross-sectional study were carried out in tertiary care Women’s hospitals
in the Colombo district. The study was carried out from 10th November 2016 to 22nd August 2017. The data
was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Stratified random sampling method were used to get
the required sample size.
Results
Overall, all three selected health care professionals were had positive attitudes towards patient involvement
in patient safety as a potential patient. Nurses were scored highest in all components except one (Information
provision questions), where midwives also scored highest as well.
Conclusion
our research finding suggest that health care professionals are willing to involve in patient safety behaviours
as a potential patient in safety related issues. However, further in-depth studies necessary to identify the
behavior of different clinical specialties as we were confined to obstetrics and gynaecology
Selected Health Care Professionals (HCP) in this study include Consultants, Postgraduate trainees, Senior
Medical Officers, Relief House Officers, Intern Medical Officers, Nursing Sisters, Grade Nursing Officers
and Midwives. |
