Patient Safety Incident Reporting Behavior And Associated Factors Among Health Professionals Working In Public Hospitals Of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2021

Abstract

Background: Patient safety incident reporting is widely recognized as one of the ways of improving patient safety by learning from reported incidents and near misses. There is a deficit in patient safety incident reporting in Ethiopian public hospitals. And there is very limited information exists in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area of the Hadiya zone in southern Ethiopia. Objective: This study is aimed to assess patient safety incident reporting behavior and associated factors among health care professionals working in public hospitals in the Hadiya zone, southern Ethiopia, 2021. Method: Cross-sectional study design was used among 339 health care professionals in Hadiya zone hospitals from August 1-30, 2021. A simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants, and a structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data was entered into Epi-data and then exported to the statistical package for social sciences version 20 software. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was done. Variables with a p-value < 0.05 with a 95% CI were considered statistically significant. RESULT: This study included 334 with a response rate of 98.5 %. The overall response rate of incident reporting behavior was 28.7% (95% CI: 24.6, 33.2). Nurses 4.9 (AOR = 4.9, 95% CI: 1.5, 16), on job training (AOR=2.9, 95% CI: 1.4, 6.02), having team within the units (AOR =2.8, 95%CI: 1.25, 6.29), communication openness (AOR=2.73, 95% CI: 1.42, 5.24), management support (AOR=2.8, 95%CI: 1.4, 5.66), feedback to error (AOR = 2.1, 95%, CI: 1.07,4.07), fear of administration sanction (AOR=0.49, 95%CI: 0.25, 0.97) and time taken for reporting (AOR=0.37, 95%CI: 0.16, 0.86) have significantly associated to incident reporting behavior. Conclusion and Recommendation: This study revealed that the patient safety incident reporting behavior of the health care professionals is 28.7%. Therefore, managers give feedback on incidents, prepare continuous training programs and simplify them to have communication openness to improve patient safety incident reporting