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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Injury Prevention and Control
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1434387
This article is part of the Research Topic Patient and Medical Staff Safety and Healthy Work Environment in the 21st Century View all 18 articles

Nurses' adverse event reporting attitudes and related factors: a cross-sectional study in maternal and child specialized hospitals in China

Provisionally accepted
Fang Wu Fang Wu Xin Wang Xin Wang *Shaochuan Chen Shaochuan Chen *Huimin Li Huimin Li *Huiqiong Xie Huiqiong Xie *
  • Chendu Women’s And Children’s Central Hospital,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Women and Children’s Central Hospital, Chengdu, China

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    Objective To investigate the current situation of nurses' attitude towards adverse event reporting and identify its related factors in maternal and child specialized hospitals.A questionnaire survey was conducted among 943 nurses in 18 second-level and above maternal and child specialized hospitals in Sichuan province in China. The questionnaire included general information and the Chinese version of Reporting of Clinical Adverse Effects Scale(C-RoCAES).The total score of adverse events reported by nurses was 63.98±8.77. The scores of the dimensions from high to low were reporting standard (3.13±0.46), reporting impac t (2.80±0.54), reporting purpose (1.98±0.66), and reporting environment (1.98±0.42). Educ ational background(β=-1.87,p<0.001),professional title(β=-3.51,p<0.001), and adverse event experience(β=-7.05,p<0.001) were the positively associated with higher levels of nurses' at titude towards adverse event reporting in maternal and child specialized hospitals (P<0.0 5).The attitude of nurses in maternal and child specialized hospitals to report a dverse events is at the middle level. Hospital managers should improve the reporting sta ndards for adverse events, improve the hospital safety culture, strengthen the relevant tr aining for nurses with low education and low professional titles, so as to improve nurses ' awareness of adverse event reporting and reporting rate.

    Keywords: maternal and child specialized hospital, Nurse, Adverse event, Reporting attitude, Related factors

    Received: 17 May 2024; Accepted: 22 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wu, Wang, Chen, Li and Xie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xin Wang, Chendu Women’s And Children’s Central Hospital,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Women and Children’s Central Hospital, Chengdu, China
    Shaochuan Chen, Chendu Women’s And Children’s Central Hospital,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Women and Children’s Central Hospital, Chengdu, China
    Huimin Li, Chendu Women’s And Children’s Central Hospital,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Women and Children’s Central Hospital, Chengdu, China
    Huiqiong Xie, Chendu Women’s And Children’s Central Hospital,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Women and Children’s Central Hospital, Chengdu, China

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