Safety Culture in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A Need for Policy Change

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dc.contributor.authorAbu-El-Noor, Nasser Ibrahim
dc.contributor.authorHamdan, Motasem Abduallah
dc.contributor.authorAbu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil
dc.contributor.authorRadwan, Abdal-Karim Said
dc.contributor.authorAlshaer, Ahmed Ali
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-23T15:45:10Z
dc.date.available2021-06-23T15:45:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-09
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Assessment of the prevailing safety culturewithin theGazan health care systemcan be used to identify problem areas. Specifically, the need for improvements, raising awareness about patient safety, the identification and evaluation of existing safety programs and interventions for improving the safety culture. This study aims to assess the safety culture in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Gaza Strip hospitals and to assess the safety culture in regards to caregivers' characteristics. Methods: In a cross-sectional study using a census sample,we surveyed all nurses and physiciansworking in at all the NICUs in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) which includes six scales was used to assess participants' attitudes towards safety culture. Results: The overall score for SAQ was 63.9. Domains' scores ranged between 55.5 (perception of management) and 71.8 (stress recognition). The scores reported by our participants fell below the 75 out of a possible score of 100, which was considered as a cut-off point for a positive score. Moreover, our results revealed substantial variation in safety culture domain scores among participating NICUs. Conclusion: These results should be an indicator to our health care policy makers to modify current or adopt new health care policies to improve safety culture. It should also be a call to design customized programs for improving the safety culture in NICUs in the Gaza Strip.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0882-5963
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.alquds.edu/handle/20.500.12213/6409
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier Incen_US
dc.subjectSafety cultureen_US
dc.subjectPatient safetyen_US
dc.subjectAdverse eventsen_US
dc.subjectNeonatal intensive care units (NICU)en_US
dc.subjectGaza stripen_US
dc.titleSafety Culture in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A Need for Policy Changeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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