Table 1 The Mean Score (SD) of Student’s Attitude towards Patient Safety at Pre-test and Post-test (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) (N = 239)
Items | Pre-test, mean (SD) | Post-test, mean (SD) | Difference, mean (SD) | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Making errors while caring for patients is inevitable (R) | 2.68 (1.14) | 2.79 (1.21) | 0.10 (1.02)a | 0.120 |
2. If people paid more attention to their work, medical errors could be avoided (R) | 1.97 (0.84) | 1.91 (0.79) | −0.05 (0.89) | 0.429 |
3. Patients play an important role in preventing medical errors | 3.89 (0.78) | 4.09 (0.67) | 0.20 (0.76)b | 0.000 |
4. Most errors are due to things that physicians can’t do anything about (R) | 3.90 (0.66) | 4.11 (0.73) | 0.21 (0.71)b | 0.000 |
5. Learning how to improve patient safety is an appropriate use of time in medical school | 4.47 (0.60) | 4.53 (0.59) | 0.06 (0.62)a | 0.141 |
6. If there is no harm to a patient, there is no need to address an error (R) | 4.31(0.61) | 4.60 (0.60) | 0.29 (0.63)b | 0.000 |
7. Medical students play an important role in providing patient-centered care | 4.11 (0.70) | 4.23 (0.66) | 0.12 (0.67)b | 0.006 |
8. The most important way to reduce medical errors is to have one clear team leader who everybody else follows (R) | 3.40 (0.98) | 3.84 (0.89) | 0.44 (0.88)b | 0.000 |
9. Standardizing procedures takes away a clinician’s ability to develop his/her own techniques and eliminates physician creativity (R) | 3.45 (0.89) | 3.66 (0.91) | 0.21 (0.88)b | 0.001 |
10. Patient care is provided most efficiently when each team member focuses individually without worrying about what the rest of the team is doing (R) | 4.22 (0.74) | 4.39 (0.80) | 0.17 (0.75)b | 0.000 |
11. Most medical errors are because of one provider failing to do his/her job properly (R) | 3.43 (0.84) | 3.91 (0.91) | 0.48 (0.98)b | 0.000 |
12. Medical errors used to be a concern, but with modern technology, most providers can make it through their career without committing an error (R) | 4.35 (0.69) | 4.34 (0.80) | −0.01 (0.79) | 0.988 |
13. Students play a key role in ensuring patient safety | 3.89 (0.87) | 4.21 (0.63) | 0.33 (0.79)b | 0.000 |
Total score of attitude scale (score range: 3–61) | 47.73 (5.10) | 50.56 (4.46) | 2.83 (4.75) | 0.000 |