Patient Safety Incidents in Italian Mental Health Residential Services, 159 Respondents

Italian data from a multicenter, cross-sectional survey of 159 healthcare and non-healthcare professionals across 68 psychiatric residential services. The dataset includes 4,432 personally experienced and 4,807 colleague-reported patient safety incidents, categorized using a WHO-adapted taxonomy. The study was authored by Sophia Russotto and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency and distribution of behavior-related incidents based on the reported taxonomy categories.
• Model associations between facility characteristics (e.g., staff size, residential status) and incident reporting rates based on the study's secondary analyses.
• Compare incident reporting patterns between healthcare and non-healthcare professional groups based on the described findings.
• Investigate geographic variability in patient safety incidents across the seven Italian provinces included in the study.

Strengths

• Includes a substantial number of incident reports (9,239 total) from a defined cohort of 68 services.
• Captures perspectives from both healthcare and non-healthcare professionals (159 respondents).
• Uses a structured taxonomy adapted from the World Health Organization's patient safety framework.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data is contained within a 170.1 KB PDF, which may require extraction and structuring for analysis.
• The dataset's scope is limited to a specific 12-month period and seven Italian provinces.

Provenance

Source

Sophia Russotto via figshare.

Collection Method

Multicenter, cross-sectional, questionnaire-based observational study.

Time Range

Incidents reported over the 12 months preceding the survey.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:44:19.

Geography

68 psychiatric mental health services from seven different Italian provinces.