Cultural adaptation and validation of Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) for child protection services
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Abstract
Background Various survey reports published since the 1980s point to the historical persistence of difficult practice conditions for practitioners working in Quebec's youth protection system. The absence of validated measurement tools capable of describing, comparing over time, and detecting indicators in practice makes it difficult to analyze the impact of reforms on the safety culture of professionals. Objectives (1) Present the process of translating and adapting the Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) in a youth protection context, (2) test the construct validity of the French version of the SAQ for youth protection (SAQ-Fr-PJ), (3) document each subscale's reliability in terms of internal consistency . Participants and setting 309 youth protection workers from six regions of Quebec completed the experimental version of the SAQ-Fr-PJ. Methods The SAQ-Fr-PJ translation and cultural adaptation process comprised four phases: 1) preliminary version development, 2) preliminary version evaluation and cross-cultural adaptation, 3) evaluation of statement clarity (pretest), 4) experimental version development. Results A confirmatory factor analysis was used to compare several models. The model selected corresponds to the original structure of the SAQ - Short Form, excluding two items. Fit indices suggest acceptable construct validity for this model. Internal consistency is good, with Cronbach's alpha values ranging from 0.712 to 0.879. Conclusions The results of our study, the first to complete the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the SAQ to the French youth protection context, support the reliability and validity of the original six-dimension model. The SAQ-Fr-PJ may help to understand and compare the dimensions of safety culture in the future.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".