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Alessia De Angelis1, Luca Pancani2, Patrizia Steca2
1Department of Nursing, Local Health Authority Roma 4, Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy.
Aim:
To test an explanatory model of nurses' intention to report adverse drug reactions in hospital settings, based on the theory of planned behaviour.
Background:
Under-reporting of adverse drug reactions is an important problem among nurses.
Methods:
A cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected with the adverse drug reporting nurses' questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the factor validity of the adverse drug reporting nurses' questionnaire, and structural equation modelling was used to test the explanatory model.
Results:
The convenience sample comprised 500 Italian hospital nurses (mean age = 43.52). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the factor validity of the adverse drug reporting nurses' questionnaire. The structural equation modelling showed a good fit with the data. Nurses' intention to report adverse drug reactions was significantly predicted by attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control (R² = 0.16).
Conclusions:
The theory of planned behaviour effectively explained the mechanisms behind nurses' intention to report adverse drug reactions, showing how several factors come into play.
Implications For Nursing Management:
In a scenario of organisational empowerment towards adverse drug reaction reporting, the major predictors of the intention to report are support for the decision to report adverse drug reactions from other health care practitioners, perceptions about the value of adverse drug reaction reporting and nurses' favourable self-assessment of their adverse drug reaction reporting skills.
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