This study evaluated the safety attitudes of 290 operating room staff at two hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. Researchers administered the Turkish version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-Operating Room Version to assess reliability and validity. Results showed staff with over 11 years experience, those working only day shifts, volunteers, and those in rooms with 2-5 surgeries daily had higher safety attitude scores. Operating room staff reported higher team collaboration and communication with colleagues than other roles, though surgeons reported similar levels. The study recommends increasing education, resources, safety committees, training opportunities, and surveys to improve safety culture.

1. Evaluation of operating room staff’s attitudes related to patient safety
Author: EBRU ÖNLER
Supervisor: PROF. DR. NERİMAN AKYOLCU
Where: İstanbul University / Instıtute of Health Sciences / Surgical Diseases Nursing Department
Subject: Nursing
ABSTRACT
Research was performed to evaluate safety attitudes of operating room employees and
examining the reliability and validity of Turkish version of the Safety Attitudes
Questionnaire-Operating Room Version (SAQ-OR Version).The study was carried out on 290
operating room employees of Istanbul University Istanbul and Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty
Hospitals. In the first stage of research, we examined reliability and validity of Turkish
version of the SAQ-OR Version. In the second stage datas were collected by using an
Employee Information Form and SAQ-OR Version. Avarage, standart deviation, frequency,
percentage, student t, correlation analysis, factor analysis, oneway anova, cronbach alpha
and Tukey HDS were used at data analysis. It was determined that safety attitude point
avarage of employees are higher and difference between them are significant who work 11
years or more, only in daytime, voluntarily, at operating rooms which have 2-5 surgery in a
day and participiants of job training. Also operating room employees have higher level of
team collaboration and communication with their colleagues, than other members of
operating room team, but surgeons indicated same level for team collaboration and
communication with their colleagues and nurses. It was proposed to provide sufficient
number and well educated employees and equipment, reorganize working hours as law-suit,
establish patient and employee safety committee, support operating room employee to join
educational activities about patient and employee safety, provide directors? support,
improve operating room team cooperation and communication, increase surveys about this
area at different hospitals.
Key Words: Operating room, patient safety, patient safety culture, adaptation of scale, reliability,
validity.