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Table 2 Factor scores at the four time points

From: Changing medical student attitudes to patient safety: a multicentre study

 

Factor mean score (sd)

Factor

Title

Time 1

Time 2

Time 3

Time 4

1

Patient safety training received

10.75 (1.28)

12.09 (1.22)

12.33 (1.14)

11.98 (1.13)

2

Error reporting confidence

10.04 (2.02)

10.31 (2.16)

10.42 (2.01)

9.91 (2.11)

3

Working hours as error cause

11.79 (1.49)

12.40 (1.84)

12.41 (1.69)

12.67 (1.54)

4

Error inevitability

12.88 (1.39)

12.99 (1.53)

13.32 (1.34)

13.06 (1.34)

5

Professional incompetence as error cause

10.71 (1.23)

10.66 (1.30)

10.59 (1.29)

10.46 (1.30)

6

Disclosure responsibility

10.27 (1.31)

10.39 (1.41)

10.40 (1.33)

10.17 (1.36)

7

Team functioning

8.30 (0.80)

8.53 (1.12)

8.86 (0.90)

8.62 (0.89)

8

Patient involvement in reducing error

7.62 (1.24)

8.26 (1.05)

8.92 (0.97)

8.15 (1.11)

9

Importance of patient safety in the curriculum

12.13 (1.31)

11.95 (1.54)

12.51 (1.33)

12.43 (1.44)

  1. Factor mean scores across time
  2. (Notes Factors 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9 have a possible range of 3–15. Factors 7 and 8 have a range of 2–10. Factor 5 has a range of 4–20)