title: Safety culture in the operating room of a public hospital in the perception of healthcare professionals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the perception of healthcare professionals about the safety culture in the operating room of a public hospital, large-sized, according to the domains of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ).
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative research, with the application of the SAQ to 226 professionals. Descriptive data analysis, instrument consistency and exploratory factor analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants were distributed homogeneously between females (49.6%) and males (50.4%); mean age of 39.6 (SD±9.9) years and length of professional experience of 9.9 (SD ± 9.2) years. And Cronbach's α of 0.84. It was identified six domains proposed in the questionnaire: stress perception (74.5) and job satisfaction (70.7) showed satisfactory results; teamwork environment (59.1) and climate of security (48.9) presented scores below the minimum recommended (75); unit's management perceptions (44.5), hospital management perceptions (34.9) and working conditions (41.9) presented the lowest averages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that, from the perspective of the professionals, there is weakness in the values, attitudes, skills and behaviors that determine the safety culture in a healthcare organization.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria de Estado de Saúde, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paloma Aparecida
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa em Ciências da Saúde, Secretaria de Estado de Saúde, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Leila Bernarda Donato
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Göttems
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Saúde, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Raquel Gomes Maia
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Pires
authors.affiliation: Fundação de Ensino e Pesquisa em Ciências da Saúde, Secretaria de Estado de Saúde, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Liz Cunha
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000592:standards*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D061214:Patient Safety; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D017751:Safety Management; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000074824:Work Engagement