Health professionals’ perceptions of patient safety competencies: psychometric properties of the French version of the H-PEPSS in France and Switzerland

Table 3 Descriptive Statistics of the 6 Patient Safety Competencies of the H-PEPSS (N = 449)

	k	M	SD	Min	Max	Skewness	Kurtosis	α	ω
C1	5	4.16	0.54	2.20	5.00	-0.66	0.17	0.64	0.69
C2	3	4.40	0.53	2.33	5.00	-0.67	0.05	0.74	0.74
C3	3	3.83	0.60	1.67	5.00	-0.50	0.61	0.66	0.67
C4	3	4.00	0.58	2.00	5.00	-0.47	0.37	0.54	0.57
C5	4	3.97	0.58	2.25	5.00	-0.26	-0.24	0.67	0.69
C6	4	3.91	0.59	2.25	5.00	-0.36	-0.17	0.60	0.63
Total	22	4.05	0.42	2.36	5.00	-0.33	0.20	0.88	0.89

Note. C1 = Working in teams with other health professionals, C2 = Communicating effectively, C3 = Managing safety risks, C4 = Understanding human and environmental factors, C5 = Recognizing and responding to reduce harm, C6 = Culture of safety. All the descriptive statistics are based on mean item scores. k Number of items, M Mean, SD Standard deviations

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