Safety climate in the surgical center: validation of a questionnaire for the Brazilian scenario

Abstract

To validate the translated and culturally adapted version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire/Operating Room Version to the Brazilian context. A methodological study to validatethe psychometric propertiesof the questionnaire adapted to the Brazilian context. The sample corresponded to 590 health professionals acting in the surgical center, of four Brazilianhospitals, collecting the data from May to August 2014. The construct validation was performedby the exploratory factorial analysis and the reliability using the Cronbach’s alpha. The analysisgenerated a questionnaire with 40 affirmations divided intosix domains: climade segurança, percepção da gerência, percepção do estresse, condição do trabalho, comunicação no ambientecirúrgico e percepção do desempenhoprofissional. The adapted version was reliable, obtained a general Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.87, andbetween domains, the alpha varied from 0.59 to 0.87. This study allowed to validate an instrument capable of assessingthe safety environment in a surgical center.