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Table 5 Characteristics of the safety attitude survey respondents

From: The safety attitudes questionnaire in Chinese: psychometric properties and benchmarking data of the safety culture in Beijing hospitals

Characteristics

Valid frequency

Percent(%)

Hospital level

 Secondary-level hospitals

652

39.21

 Tertiary-level hospitals

1011

60.79

Department category

 Obstetrics and gynecology department

112

7.33

 Intensive care units

114

7.47

 Operating rooms

119

7.79

 The wards of internal medicine

406

26.59

 General surgery

340

22.27

 Emergency rooms

105

6.88

 Outpatient department

100

6.55

 Medico-technical departments

231

15.13

Gender

 Male

338

20.62

 Female

1301

79.38

Age groups(years)

  ≤ 20

14

0.85

 21 ~ 30

743

45.06

 31 ~ 40

518

31.41

 41 ~ 50

294

17.83

  ≥ 51

80

4.85

Education degree

 Senior high schools and middle special schools

81

4.90

 College degree

626

37.85

 Bachelor degree

696

42.08

 Master degree

220

13.30

 Doctor degree

31

1.87

Job discipline

 Physicians

506

30.69

 Nurses

908

55.06

 Pharmacists

103

6.25

 Technicians

114

6.91

 Others

18

1.09

Technical titles

 None

178

10.77

 Primary title

791

47.88

 Middle title

541

32.75

 Associated advanced title

103

6.23

 Advanced title

39

2.36

Administrative post

 Director of the department

44

2.68

 Nursing manager

58

3.53

 Normal staff

1511

92.02

 Others

29

1.77

Years working in the current department

  < 6 months

182

11.06

 6 ~ 11 months

68

4.13

 1 ~ 2 years

228

13.86

 3 ~ 7 years

510

31.00

 8 ~ 12 years

284

17.26

 13 ~ 20 years

215

13.07

  ≥ 21 years

158

9.60

Have participated in the survey before

 Yes

447

27.01

 No

1208

72.99