Associations Between a New Disruptive Behaviors Scale and Teamwork, Patient Safety, Work-Life Balance, Burnout, and Depression.
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2020-01
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Disruptive and unprofessional behaviors occur frequently in health care and adversely affect patient care and health care worker job satisfaction. These behaviors have rarely been evaluated at a work setting level, nor do we fully understand how disruptive behaviors (DBs) are associated with important metrics such as teamwork and safety climate, work-life balance, burnout, and depression.Objectives
Using a cross-sectional survey of all health care workers in a large US health system, this study aimed to introduce a brief scale for evaluating DBs at a work setting level, evaluate the scale's psychometric properties and provide benchmarking prevalence data from the health care system, and investigate associations between DBs and other validated measures of safety culture and well-being.Results
One or more of six DBs were reported by 97.8% of work settings. DBs were reported in similar frequencies by men and women, and by most health care worker roles. The six-item disruptive behavior scale demonstrated an internal consistency of α = 0.867. DB climate was significantly correlated with poorer teamwork climate, safety climate, job satisfaction, and perceptions of management; lower work-life balance; increased emotional exhaustion (burnout); and increased depression (p < 0.001 for each). A 10-unit increase in DB climate was associated with a 3.89- and 3.83-point decrease in teamwork and safety climate, respectively, and a 3.16- and 2.42-point increase in burnout and depression, respectively.Conclusion
Disruptive behaviors are common, measurable, and associated with safety culture and health care worker well-being. This concise DB scale affords researchers a new, valid, and actionable tool to assess DBs.Type
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Rehder, Kyle J, Kathryn C Adair, Allison Hadley, Katie McKittrick, Allan Frankel, Michael Leonard, Terri Christensen Frankel, J Bryan Sexton, et al. (2020). Associations Between a New Disruptive Behaviors Scale and Teamwork, Patient Safety, Work-Life Balance, Burnout, and Depression. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety, 46(1). pp. 18–26. 10.1016/j.jcjq.2019.09.004 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23683.
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Kyle Jason Rehder
Mechanical Ventilation, ECMO, Patient Safety and Quality, Communication, Education
John Bryan Sexton
Bryan is the Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. He leads the efforts around research, training and coaching, guiding quality improvement and well-being activities.
A psychologist member of the Department of Psychiatry, Bryan is a psychometrician and spends time developing methods of assessing and improving safety culture, teamwork, leadership and especially work-force well-being. Currently, he is disseminating the results from a successful NIH R01 grant that used RCTs to show that we can cause enduring improvements in healthcare worker well-being.
A perpetually recovering father of four, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, books on Audible, and hearing particularly good explanations of extremely complicated topics.
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