The relationship between medical error tendency and mindfulness levels of nursing students in Turkey: a descriptive
Selçuk Görücü1, Gülengün Türk2
1Akdeniz Üniversity Kumluca Faculty of Health Science, Nursing Department, Antalya, Turkey. selcukgorucu@gmail.com.
Background:
Given the nature of the health profession, medical errors are considered a common problem. Nursing students are inevitably likely to make medical errors due to the lack of adequate and safe learning environments during their clinical practice.
Aim:
We aimed to investigate the relationship between the tendency to make medical errors and the level of mindfulness of senior nursing students.
Methods:
Data were collected using the Malpractice Trend Scale (MTS) and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). This study was reported following STROBE.
Results:
The students' MAAS total score mean was 62.96 ± 1.64. The MTS total score mean was 79.91 ± 1.25. According to Pearson correlation analysis, there was a weak, positive (r = 0.194) and statistically insignificant (p > 0.05) relationship between the total scores of MTS and MAAS.
Conclusions:
It was concluded that as the students' mindfulness levels increase, their tendency to make medical error decreases, but this result is not statistically significant.
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