Using the Health Belief Model to explain patient involvement in patient safety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the knowledge that patient safety incidents can significantly impact patients, providers and health-care organizations, greater emphasis on patient involvement as a means to mitigate risks warrants further research.

Objective

To understand whether patient perceptions of patient safety play a role in patient involvement in factual and challenging patient safety practices and whether the constructs of the Health Belief Model (HBM) help to explain such perceptions.

Design

Partial least squares (PLS) analysis of survey data.

Setting and participants

Four inpatient units located in two tertiary hospitals in Atlantic Canada. Patients discharged from participating units between November 2010 and January 2011.

Intervention

None.

Results

A

SUBMITTER: Bishop AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5810747 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature