Attitudes to Patients’ Safety Questionnaire in The Arabic Context: Psychometric Properties
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Title
Attitudes to Patients’ Safety Questionnaire in The Arabic Context: Psychometric Properties
Subject
Arab, attitudes, patients, safety, validation
Description
Patient safety education is often implicit in undergraduate nursing curricula, making it harder to meet competency standards. The Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire (APSQ-III), which was developed in 2009 by Carruthers and collaborators in the United Kingdom, examines patient safety on a more sophisticated system level and has the potential to lead
productive, nonhierarchical collaboration in educational settings. This study's goal was to use rigorous psychometric testing to validate the Arabic version of the Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire (APSQ-III) for nursing students in an
Arabic context. The majority of the 217 students recruited for this study through a convenience sampling technique were
in their fourth year of college. There were two phases of APSQ-III validation investigations. Initially, three nurses were
hired. The team documented their ideas and selected the best one. The Arabic version of the APSQ-III was translated
using World Health Organization (WHO) principles. A number of models were developed and evaluated. On the APSQIII, which had a total of 25 questions, a principal components analysis with equamax rotation was carried out. The analysis
revealed that the six higher-order factors with respective eigenvalues of (5.9, 3.1, 2.0, 1.3, 1.2, and 1.1) account for 58.4%
of the total variance. All resulting factors contained at least three variables with clean loadings. The APSQ-III, which has
been modified for use with nursing students in Jordan and other Arab countries has achieved construct validity and a
Cronbach’s alpha reliability of 0.80 for measuring attitudes regarding patient safety
productive, nonhierarchical collaboration in educational settings. This study's goal was to use rigorous psychometric testing to validate the Arabic version of the Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire (APSQ-III) for nursing students in an
Arabic context. The majority of the 217 students recruited for this study through a convenience sampling technique were
in their fourth year of college. There were two phases of APSQ-III validation investigations. Initially, three nurses were
hired. The team documented their ideas and selected the best one. The Arabic version of the APSQ-III was translated
using World Health Organization (WHO) principles. A number of models were developed and evaluated. On the APSQIII, which had a total of 25 questions, a principal components analysis with equamax rotation was carried out. The analysis
revealed that the six higher-order factors with respective eigenvalues of (5.9, 3.1, 2.0, 1.3, 1.2, and 1.1) account for 58.4%
of the total variance. All resulting factors contained at least three variables with clean loadings. The APSQ-III, which has
been modified for use with nursing students in Jordan and other Arab countries has achieved construct validity and a
Cronbach’s alpha reliability of 0.80 for measuring attitudes regarding patient safety
Creator
Muayyad Ahmad, Bushra Ghannam
Source
DOI: 10.7454/jki.v27i1.990
Publisher
Universitas Indonesia
Date
2024
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Rights
pISSN 1410-4490; eISSN 2354-9203
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Files
Collection
Citation
Muayyad Ahmad, Bushra Ghannam, “Attitudes to Patients’ Safety Questionnaire in The Arabic Context: Psychometric Properties,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 21, 2026, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/10931.