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Table 1 SAQ administration response rates and floor and ceiling effects

From: The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research

       

percent floor/percent ceiling

SAQ Version-Country

# sites

n returned

n administered

response rate

teamwork climate

safety climate

perceptions of management

job satisfaction

working conditions

stress recognition

ICU-UK

106

4856

7390

65.7%

.08/6.41

.02/1.77

1.15/.27

.37/2.10

.31/1.55

.58/3.53

ICU-NZ

20

761

1054

72.2%

.26/2.50

.00/1.32

1.19/.13

.92/1.18

.26/.66

.13/8.54

ICU USA

53

3029

4415

68.6%

.10/3.11

.00/2.28

1.06/1.72

.13/5.09

.40/2.88

.73/6.48

Inpatient-USA

11

1531

2330

65.7%

.13/4.02

.07/4.52

1.32/3.43

.39/7.72

.86/3.29

.86/7.83

OR-UK/NZ

2

385

575

67.0%

.00/1.04

.00/.52

2.86/.00

1.04/1.04

1.30/.78

.26/14.58

Ambulatory Clinic-USA

11

281

420

67.0%

.00/14.23

.00/4.98

.71/2.85

.00/12.10

2.50/6.79

6.43/5.36

OVERALL

203

10843

16184

67.0%

.10/4.90

.00/2.30

1.20/1.20

.40/3.90

.50/2.20

.80/5.80

  1. This chart details the number of clinical areas within an SAQ administration, the number of respondents, and the response rate. Note: percentage floor/percentage ceiling = the percent of scores at the extremes of the scaling range