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Table 5 Final Survey Items

From: Measuring psychological safety in healthcare teams: developing an observational measure to complement survey methods

Length of time working with this team:

Please respond to the following questions by indicating your response between 1 = strongly disagree and 10 = strongly agree

Section 1. Please answer the following questions in relation to your team leader

Questions

b1 Strongly disagree

2

3

4

5

6

7 Strongly agree

1. If I had a question or was unsure of something in relation to my role at work, I could ask my team leader

       

2. I can communicate my opinions about work issues with my team leader

       

3. I can speak up about personal problems or disagreements to my team leader

       

4. I can speak up with recommendations/ideas for new projects or changes in procedures to my team leader

       

5. If I made a mistake on this team, I would feel safe speaking up to my team leader

       

6. If I saw a colleague making a mistake, I would feel safe speaking up to my team leader

       

7. If I speak up/voice my opinion, I know that my input is valued by my team leader

       

8. My team leader encourages and supports me to take on new tasks or to learn how to do things I have never done before.

       

9. If I had a problem in this company, I could depend on my team leader to be my advocate

       

Section 2. Please answer the following questions in relation to your peers/the other members of your team

Questions

b1 Strongly disagree

2

3

4

5

6

7 Strongly agree

10. If I had a question or was unsure of something in relation to my role at work, I could ask my peers

       

11. I can communicate my opinions about work issues with my peers

       

12. I can speak up about personal issues to my peers

       

13. I can speak up with recommendations/ideas for new projects or changes in procedures to my peers

       

14. If I made a mistake on this team, I would feel safe speaking up to my peers

       

15. If I saw a colleague making a mistake, I would feel safe speaking up to this colleague

       

16. If I speak up/voice my opinion, I know that my input is valued by my peers

       

Section 3. Please answer in relation to your team as a whole

Questions

b1 Strongly disagree

2

3

4

5

6

7 Strongly agree

17. It is easy to ask other members of this team for helpa

       

18. People keep each other informed about work-related issues in the team

       

19. There are real attempts to share information throughout the team

       

Compared to similar meetings with your team howdifferentwas:b

Questions

Very different

Different

Slightly Different

Neutral

Slightly different

Not different

Not at all Different

20. This meeting?

       

21. Your behaviour during this meeting

       

22. The behaviour of your colleagues

       
  1. aReverse scored
  2. bThe sections of the survey marked in italics were changed based on pilot tests