{"title":"Investigation of the Correlation Between Biological Factors and Safety Culture Perceptions of Hospital Cleaning Staff","authors":"B. Kaya, Yavuz Özoran","doi":"10.53424/balikesirsbd.1268247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Aim: The aim of this research is to identify the degree to which cleaning staff in public hospitals have adopted work health and safety activities and safety culture perceptions and converted these to behavior. Material and Method: The population for the research comprised 565 cleaning staff employed in a total of 12 secondary health institutions and tertiary health institutions linked to the union of public hospitals located in Giresun provincial center and counties. Data in the study were collected with a survey form including questions about sociodemographic features, working conditions, and knowledge, attitudes and behavior about biological factors and the Safety Culture Scale.Results: According to participant knowledge about biological factors causing infectious disease, only the fatalism subscale among safety culture perception levels was significant (p","PeriodicalId":247163,"journal":{"name":"Balıkesır Health Sciences Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Balıkesır Health Sciences Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53424/balikesirsbd.1268247","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Aim: The aim of this research is to identify the degree to which cleaning staff in public hospitals have adopted work health and safety activities and safety culture perceptions and converted these to behavior. Material and Method: The population for the research comprised 565 cleaning staff employed in a total of 12 secondary health institutions and tertiary health institutions linked to the union of public hospitals located in Giresun provincial center and counties. Data in the study were collected with a survey form including questions about sociodemographic features, working conditions, and knowledge, attitudes and behavior about biological factors and the Safety Culture Scale.Results: According to participant knowledge about biological factors causing infectious disease, only the fatalism subscale among safety culture perception levels was significant (p