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Safety Attitudes Questionnaire
The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is a 60-item self-report instrument developed by Sexton and colleagues in the early 2000s to measure organizational safety culture in healthcare settings. Adapted from crew resource management research in aviation, the SAQ assesses clinician and non-clinician perceptions of safety attitudes across six key dimensions. It is widely used in hospital quality improvement and research to identify gaps in safety culture and benchmark institutional performance.
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Sources
- Sexton, J. B., Helmreich, R. L., Neilands, T. B., Rowan, K., Vella, K., Boyden, J., Roberts, P. R., & Thomas, E. J. (2006). The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. BMC Health Services Research, 6, 44. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-44 ↗
- Thomas, E. J., Sexton, J. B., Neilands, T. B., Helmreich, R. L., & Williamson, J. W. (2005). The effect of executive coaching on communication and teamwork among senior medical residents. Academic Medicine, 80(10), 957-963. DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200510000-00013 ↗
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