This study aims to test whether a brief behavioural intervention can help healthcare professionals raise and respond to patient safety concerns in their work. Healthcare professionals are often encouraged to speak up about safety risks, but barriers such as time pressure, uncertainty, and workplace culture can make this difficult.
Participants will complete an online questionnaire about their experiences of patient safety risks and how often they raise concerns. They will then be randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group will complete a short planning exercise ("if-then" plans) designed to help them act when they notice safety concerns, while the other group will not receive this exercise. Participants will be invited to complete follow-up questionnaires at approximately one month and six months to assess how often they have raised or responded to safety concerns since taking part.
Currently working as a healthcare professional in a health or social care setting
Good understanding of written and spoken English
Aged under 18 years
Not currently working as a healthcare professional in a health or social care setting
Poor understanding of written and spoken English
Parallel
Implementation intention planning
BehavioralImplementation intention planning to promote patient safety concerns
Raising safety concerns
Self-reported frequency of raising and responding to patient safety concerns at 1-month and 6-month follow-up.
Capability, opportunity and motivation (based on the COM-B model) measured at baseline, 1-month, and 6-month follow-up.
Measured using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation questionnaire. Each of the items (0-10 scale) will be analysed separately as these each measure a separate construct. Higher scores indicate higher agreement with statements.
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University of Manchester
Lead sponsor
University of Leeds
Collaborator
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