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Background: Patient safety is one of the most important components of health care quality. Given that assessing the current culture of patient safety is the first step in improving patient safety, we decided to translate and validate one of the most used patient safety culture assessment tool (HSOPS questionnaire) for the first time in Iran, and in this way take a step toward improving patient safety in our hospitals.
Materials & Methods: This cross sectional study was done among four general hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), which were selected purposefully. Questionnaires randomly distributed among 420 members of the study population, and were collected after completion. Results were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), internal Consistency and correlation.
Results: The value of Fitness function (FF) was 14.25 and according to that, the value of Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) was 0.96. Almost in all of the dimensions, the internal consistency of items in the translated Persian questionnaire was lower than the original one and ranged between 0.57 to 0.8.
Conclusion: Regarding to the findings of this study the Persian translation of the HSOPS questionnaire is a valid tool for the assessment of patient safety culture in Iran's hospitals.

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Background: Considering the importance of standard precautions to prevent needle stick injuries and health care staff, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of educational interventions to improve adherence to standard precautions, health belief model based on professional clinical staff needle stick two hospital "yaftabad" and "Ghiyasi" done.

Materials and Methods: This study was an experimental study of two group. The study population was 90 persons of professional clinical staff Shohada Hospital Yaftabad as the intervention group and 90 patients from the hospital Ghiyasi as compared to randomly selected and three part questionnaire including demographic, structures, health belief model , and practice questions were completed. In analyzing the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used.

Results: At baseline, the two groups regarding demographic variables, health belief model structures and functional do not different between them. After intervention structures perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perceived barriers, self-efficacy and performance of the experimental group showed statistically significant change (p< 0.05) that the effect of education based on health belief model.

Conclusion: education based on health belief model, you can increase the level of knowledge and capacity building and efficacy in clinical staff needs people to observe standard precautions