Incident Reporting Behaviours and Associated Factors among Nurses Working in Gondar University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 4
Multivariate analysis of factors associated with incident reporting among nurses working in Gondar University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2015 ).
Variable
Incident reporting
Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)
Yes
No
Crude
Adjusted
Sociodemographic factors
Age category
20–29
42
40
1
30–39
28
66
1.41 (0.81–2.48)
0.96 (0.49–1.88)
40–49
23
45
1.70 (0.93–3.13)
1.53 (0.73–1.24)
50–59
3
31
0.32 (0.09–1.11)
0.41 (0.10–1.58)
Sex
Male
46
158
1
Female
50
124
1.39 (0.87–2.20)
0.98 (0.55–1.78)
Responsibility of the nurse
Team leader/coordinator
9
11
1
Staff nurse
87
271
0.39 (0.16–0.98)
0.39 (0.12–1.27)
Organizational factors
Training on incident reporting
Trained
21
39
1.75 (0.97–3.14)
2.96 (1.34–6.26)
Not trained
75
243
1
Availability of guideline
Yes
21
26
2.76 (1.47–5.18)
1.98 (0.74–5.26)
No
75
256
1
Availability of reporting format
Yes
18
32
1.80 (0.96–3.39)
1.33 (0.53–3.29)
No
78
250
1
Reason to report
To help the patient
Yes
73
131
3.66 (2.17–6.18)
3.08 (1.70–5.59)
No
23
151
1
Barriers to incident reporting
Fear of administrative sanctions
Yes
9
82
0.25 (0.12–0.53)
0.27 (0.12–0.58)
No
87
200
1
Fear of legal penalties
Yes
6
76
0.18 (0.08–0.43)
0.09 (0.03–0.21)
No
90
206
1
Fear of loss of prestige among colleagues
Yes
12
82
0.35 (0.18–0.67)
0.25 (0.12–0.53)
No
84
200
1
After summing up the scores of the three outcome variables.
