Treating patients in a safe environment: a cross-sectional study of patient safety attitudes among doctors in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

Table 3 Correlation between age and years of experience and APSQ-dimensions

	Age in years		Professional experience in years
	r	p-value	r	p-value
Age in years			0.940	0.000*
Job Experience in years	0.940	0.000*
D1: Patient Safety Training Received	0.334	0.000*	0.348	0.000*
D2: Error Reporting Confidence	0.267	0.001*	0.229	0.005*
D3: Working hours as a cause of errors	0.019	0.817	0.024	0.769
D4: Error Inevitability	0.164	0.045	0.147	0.072
D5: Professional Incompetence as a Cause of Error	−0.009	0.912	−0.062	0.454
D6: Disclosure Responsibility	0.128	0.118	0.131	0.109
D7: Team Functioning	0.231	0.005*	0.230	0.005*
D8: Patient Involvement in reducing Error	−0.123	0.134	−0.122	0.138
D9: Importance of Patient Safety in the Curriculum	0.098	0.234	0.101	0.219

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