Participants and Setting
This study, which is descriptive and relational in nature, aims to
assess the attitudes of health workers who take part in perioperative
care about patient safety. Researcher conducted the study between
January and March, 2018. Target population of the study was health
workers who worked in a state hospital in the eastern part of Turkey,
who were aged 18 and over, who were at least graduates of high school,
and who volunteered to participate in the study. The sample was 129
volunteer health workers that included surgeons, surgical technicians,
nurses, and other health workers who worked in state hospitals.
Researcher did not conduct power analysis for the optimal sample size of
this study. As the study was cross-sectional in nature, it involved
volunteer participants who were accessed between January 2018 and March
2018.