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Table 4 Association between participants’ academic stage and APSQ score to each domain

From: Attitudes of undergraduate medical students toward patients’ safety in Jordan: a multi-center cross-sectional study

Item Domains

Academic Stage

 

Pre-clinical Stage

Clinical Stage

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p-value

Patient safety training received

5.02

1.43

4.83

1.29

0.015

Error reporting confidence

5.00

1.44

4.80

1.49

0.630

Working hours as error cause

5.59

1.42

6.12

1.21

< 0.001

Error inevitability

5.00

1.19

5.34

1.05

0.010

Professional incompetence as error cause

3.52

0.70

3.60

0.68

0.287

Disclosure responsibility

4.77

0.93

4.73

0.84

0.034

Team functioning

5.57

1.36

5.96

1.16

< 0.001

Patient involvement in reducing error

4.97

1.36

5.09

1.27

0.140

Importance of patient safety in the curriculum

5.17

1.03

5.32

0.95

0.067

  1. SD: Standard deviation