The Effect of Patient Safety Education Using Problem-Based Learning Approach on Nurses Patient Safety Knowledge Levels and Patient Safety Attitudes

The number of questions prepared to determine the level of knowledge about patient safety is 12. 1 of them is open-ended (definition question), 11 of them are closed-ended-multiple choice questions. In multiple choice survey questions, the answer was considered correct when all correct answers in the options were known. 1 point was given for the correct answer to each question. Thus, the lowest score was 0 and the highest score was 12. The mean and standard deviation of knowledge scores are 7.78 ± 1.84, and the median is 8. Accordingly, the knowledge levels of nurses who received 8 points or less were considered "insufficient", and the knowledge levels of nurses who received 9 points or above were considered "adequate"

The scale consists of 46 items and 6 sub-dimensions in total (job satisfaction-11 items, teamwork-12 items, safety climate-5 items, management approach-7 items, identifying stress-5 items and working conditions-6 items). The five-point Likert type scale is scored as "5-completely agree, 4-agree, 3-partially agree, 2-disagree, 1-strongly disagree". Some items of the scale (items 21, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 45) are scored negatively. It was determined that the total Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was .93, and the subscale Cronbach's alpha values were .85, .86, .83, .77, .74, and .72.