Simultaneous Effect of Job Burnout and Job Satisfaction on Patient Safety Culture using Path Analysis in Military Healthcare Personnel

Patient safety is one of the main components of the quality of health services and is one of the main priorities of health studies. The present study aimed to investigate the simultaneous effect of burnout and job satisfaction on patient safety using path analysis in military healthcare personnel This cross-sectional study was carried out on a sample of healthcare workers who worked in a military hospital in Tehran, Iran in 2016. Participants were selected using stratified random sampling. For data collection, the Maslach job burnout questionnaire, JSS job satisfaction questionnaire and patient safety culture questionnaire were used. SPSS and Amos software version 22 were used and path analysis was used to analyze the data. The study included 181 (73%) women and 67 (27%) men with a mean age of 37.3 ±8.7 year. The results of path analysis indicated the adequacy of the proposed model (RMSEA=0.026). Results tended to show the negative effect of shift work (β = -0.12), job burnout (β=-0.39), male gender (β -0.50) and positive effect of education (β = 0.01), work experience (β = 0.11) and job satisfaction (β = 0.13) on patient safety. Considering the negative effect of shift work and job burnout and the positive effect of job satisfaction on patient safety, the management of such variables is necessary in order to improve patient safety