SURVEYS AND TOOLS
Thank you for your interest in
the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire and Safety Climate Survey.
Copyright to the surveys is held by The University of Texas. Permission
to use the surveys may be granted by Bryan Sexton, Robert Helmreich,
and Eric Thomas.
You have our permission to use
the surveys if you: (1) provide information about who you are
and how you intend to use the surveys (see registration form link
below), and (2) use an appropriate citation when presenting or
publishing data obtained with the surveys.
As per the existing copyright
agreement, the Safety Attitudes and Safety Climate Questionnaires
and related tools are for research purposes only and may not be
sold or distributed commercially in any form. By downloading these
materials, you agree to abide by these copyright guidelines.
The citation for
the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (all versions) is:
Sexton JB, Helmreich RL, Neilands TB, Rowan K, Vella K, Boyden J, Roberts PR, Thomas EJ. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties, Benchmarking Data, and Emerging Research. BMC Health Services Research 2006;6:44. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/44/abstract
The citation for the Safety Climate
Survey is:
Sexton JB, & Thomas EJ.
The Safety Climate Survey: Psychometric and Benchmarking Properties.
Technical Report 03-03. The University of Texas
Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice
(AHRQ grant # 1PO1HS1154401 and U18HS1116401).
The following
links contain PDF files of the surveys:
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire-Ambulatory Version
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire-ICU Version
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire-Labor and Delivery Version
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire-Operating Room Version
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire-Pharmacy Version
Safety
Climate Survey
Tracking Forms and Miscellaneous Documents:
Safety
Attitude Survey Response Rate Tracking Form-ICU Example
Safety
Attitude Questionnaire User's Guide
Scale
Computation Instructions
OB
Response Rate Tracking Form
Ambulatory
Survey Tracking Form
Inpatient Tracking Form
Safety Climate Test Retest Technical Report
The following document
contains more practical advice about survey administration:
Sexton JB, Thomas EJ,
Grillo SP. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: guidelines for administration.
Technical Report
03-02. The University of Texas Center of Excellence
for Patient Safety Research and Practice (AHRQ grant #1PO1HS1154401).
If you have additional questions, please contact Sarah Grillo at
Spgrillo1@aol.com
The development of
these surveys has been supported by grants from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (1PO1HS1154401), Eric J. Thomas, Principal
Investigator; the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation, Robert
L. Helmreich, Principal Investigator; and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Eric J. Thomas, Principal Investigator. |