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Table 1 Summary characteristic of included studies

From: Clinical nurse competence and its effect on patient safety culture: a systematic review

Author (year)

Country

Design

Participants (n)

Method of data collection

Quality assessment

(Alshehry, 2022)

Saudi Arabia

A descriptive, cross-sectional design

Nurses (320)

Survey questionnaire administration

****

Connell et al.

(2021)

Australia

A cross-sectional design

Doctors (44)

Nurses (119)

Survey administration

****

(Halabi et al., 2021)

Saudi Arabia

A cross-sectional design

Nurses (469)

Survey administration

****

(Habibi Soola et al., 2022)

Iran

Cross-sectional, correlational design

Emergency nurses (254)

Questionnaire administration

****

(Han & Roh, 2020)

Korea

A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design

Emergency nurses (200)

Survey questionnaire administration

***

(Han et al., 2020)

Korea

Cross sectional

Nurses (212)

Survey administration

****

(Huh & Shin, 2021)

Canada

A descriptive, cross-sectional design

Nurses in geriatric hospitals (186)

Survey administration

****

(Khamaiseh et al., 2020)

Jordan

A cross-sectional, descriptive study

Primary health-care nurses (644)

Survey administration

***

(Kakemam et al., 2021)

Iran

A nationwide cross-sectional study

Nurses (2295)

Survey administration

***

(Letourneau & McCurry, 2019)

England

A quasi-experimental with Pretest-posttest design

Nurses (64)

Pretest-posttest survey administration

****

(Lousada et al., 2020)

Brazil

A cross-sectional study

Multiprofessional Home Care Team (147)

Survey questionnaire administration

****

Mahsoon and Dolansky (2021)

Saudi Arabia

Correlational, cross-sectional design

Registered nurses (84)

Survey administration

***

(Najjar et al., 2018)

Belgium and Palestine

Observational, cross-sectional study

Nurses, head nurses, nursing aid staff, physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare staff (2836)

Survey administration

***

(Peñataro-Pintado et al., 2022)

Spain

Mixed method

- Delphi method:

clinical safety experts (13) and perioperative nurses (25)

- Survey administration: nurses (415), experts in clinical safety (9), Postgraduate studies in perioperative nursing (56)

- Delphi method: focus group

- Survey administration

***

(Son et al., 2019)

South Korean

A cross-sectional descriptive design

Nurses (364)

Survey administration

****

(Yan et al., 2021)

China

Cross sectional

Registered nurses (451)

Survey questionnaire administration

***