Abstract
Background: Good patient safety culture among healthcare professionals has been associated with an overall improvement in patients’ wellbeing. Previous studies on this subject focused on practices aimed at reducing adverse outcomes in the health care system. However, in the present study, we investigated the current status and associated factors of patient safety culture among healthcare workers at a Teaching hospital in Nigeria, with a view to identifying key factors that promote safety-conscious work environment.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 238 healthcare workers at Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria, who completed a validated standardized self-administered Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture questionnaires. 10 dimensions of patient safety culture were measured using the validated scales. The descriptive statistics, and chi-square were done using Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS). Significant level was considered at p<0.05.

Results: The overall patient safety evaluation yielded ratings of excellent (6.3%), very good (18.5%), good (28.2%), fair (45.4%), and poor (1.7%). Furthermore, all ten dimensions of patient safety culture recorded relatively low scores. The chi-square statistical analysis revealed solely those factors that exhibited statistically significant associations with one or more of the ten dimensions of patient safety culture among the participants, which included gender, job title, department, frequency of recorded incidents, and patient safety ratings.
Conclusion: Specific interventions that addresses the ten dimensions of the hospital survey on patient safety culture are necessary to correct low levels of patient safety culture and the eventual poor patient outcome among health care workers in Nigeria.

Key words: Patient safety culture, Healthcare workers, Socio-demographic factors, Occupational factors, and Risk Management