Table 6.

Perceived barriers to incident reporting

	Component
Barrier to incident reporting (Strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree)	1	2	3
Lack of knowledge on incident reporting	.655a	−.290	−.117
Absence of an incident report team	.031	.686a	.545
Lack of confidentiality	.041	.591	−.337
Lack of management support	.239	−.186	.798
Fear of being punished by the administrator	.630a	.467	−.142
Lack of supportive staff	−.705	.150	.040
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis

NB:

1. Components 1, 2 and 3 represent how independent variables correlate with MIR

2. ^aInterpreted as correlations and only correlations above > 0.60 where considered (+ 1 to −1) to be moderately or fairly strongly correlated to MIR in Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH)