Validity and usefulness of members reports of implementation progress in a quality improvement initiative: findings from the Team Check-up Tool (TCT)

Table 3 Construct validity: correlation of infection prevention activities with team progress barriers*

	Sum of Infection Prevention Activity Questions
Barrier Questions	Pearson correlation coefficient	p value
Sum of #15a to #15 m	-0.350	< 0.001**
a. Insufficient knowledge	-0.205	< 0.001**
b. Lack of team member consensus	-0.249	< 0.001**
c. Not enough time	-0.262	< 0.001**
d. Lack of quality improvement skills	-0.242	< 0.001**
e. Not enough buy-in from other staff members	-0.374	< 0.001**
f. Not enough buy-in from other physician staff	-0.343	< 0.001**
g. Not enough buy-in from other nursing staff	-0.361	< 0.001**
h. Burden of data collection	-0.187	< 0.001**
i. Not enough leadership support from executives	-0.158	< 0.001**
j. Not enough leadership support from physicians	-0.290	< 0.001**
k. Not enough leadership support from nurses	-0.306	< 0.001**
l. Insufficient autonomy/authority	-0.271	< 0.001**
m. Inability of team members to work together	-0.130	< 0.001**
Sum of #15 m1 to #15m5	-0.046	0.412
m1. Insufficient participation	-0.191	0.001
m2. Some members do not value the others' contributions	-0.073	0.209
m3. Low or no feeling of being a team	-0.054	0.346
m4. Personality conflicts	0.041	0.475
m5. Poor conflict resolution skills	-0.068	0.237

*Individual-level data (N = 1,406) were used for these analyses; N = 322 for 15 m1 to 15m5 items as these are asked only if respondent indicates that the team could not work together more than one-half the time.
** p < 0.00384 (Bonferroni correction to account for multiple comparison was used.)

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