Measuring Workplace Climate in Community Clinics and Health Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effectiveness of community clinics and health centers' efforts to improve the quality of care might be modified by clinics' workplace climates. Several surveys to measure workplace climate exist, but their relationships to each other and to distinguishable dimensions of workplace climate are unknown.

Objective

To assess the psychometric properties of a survey instrument combining items from several existing surveys of workplace climate and to generate a shorter instrument for future use.

Materials and methods

We fielded a 106-item survey, which included items from 9 existing instruments, to all clinicians and staff members (n=781) working in 30 California community clinics and health centers, receiving 628 responses (80% response rate). We performed exp

SUBMITTER: Friedberg MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991803 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature