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Table 2 Overall Rasch model fit statistics and reliability of SAQ domainsa

From: Measuring safety climate in acute hospitals: Rasch analysis of the safety attitudes questionnaire

Overall fit statistics

SAQ domains

Teamwork climate

Safety climate

Job satisfaction

Stress recognition

Perceptions of ward management

Perceptions of hospital management

Working conditions

Items

 Fit residual (mean)b

0.46

−0.03

−0.44

0.32

0.31

0.15

−0.14

 Fit residual (SD)c

1.65

0.86

2.10

1.49

3.92

4.02

1.17

Persons

 Fit residual (mean)b

−0.58

−0.61

−0.52

−0.50

−0.64

−0.98

−0.79

 Fit residual (SD)c

1.37

1.40

1.11

1.13

1.39

1.99

1.37

Total item-trait interaction

 Total item χ 2

70.88

40.35

59.16

41.37

164.61

153.20

14.17

 df

36

42

30

24

36

36

15

p-value

0.00

0.54

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.51

Person separation indexd

0.71

0.74

0.80

0.73

0.66

0.67

0.61

  1. SD standard deviation, df degrees of freedom
  2. aAs analysed using RUMM2030 (Rumm Laboratory Pty Ltd., Perth) for Windows
  3. bShould be close to 0 [18]
  4. cShould be close to 1 [18]
  5. dRasch based reliability statistic (analogous to Cronbach’s alpha)