Improving children's and their visitors' hand hygiene compliance.
Hand hygiene compliance
behavioural change
children
educational intervention
infection prevention
visitors
Journal
Journal of infection prevention
ISSN: 1757-1774
Titre abrégé: J Infect Prev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101469725
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2020
Mar 2020
Historique:
received:
12
06
2018
accepted:
04
10
2019
entrez:
11
1
2021
pubmed:
12
1
2021
medline:
12
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Numerous interventions have tried to improve healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance. However, little attention has been paid to children's and their visitors' compliance. To test whether interactive educational interventions increase children's and visitors' compliance with hand hygiene. This was a cluster randomised study of hand hygiene compliance before and after the introduction of educational interventions. Observations were compared for different moments of hygiene and times of the day. Qualitative data in the form of questionnaire-based structured interviews were obtained. Hand hygiene compliance increased by 24.4% ( Educational interventions may result in a significant increase in children's and visitors' hand hygiene (
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Numerous interventions have tried to improve healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance. However, little attention has been paid to children's and their visitors' compliance.
AIM
OBJECTIVE
To test whether interactive educational interventions increase children's and visitors' compliance with hand hygiene.
METHODS
METHODS
This was a cluster randomised study of hand hygiene compliance before and after the introduction of educational interventions. Observations were compared for different moments of hygiene and times of the day. Qualitative data in the form of questionnaire-based structured interviews were obtained.
FINDINGS
RESULTS
Hand hygiene compliance increased by 24.4% (
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
Educational interventions may result in a significant increase in children's and visitors' hand hygiene (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33425018
doi: 10.1177/1757177419892065
pii: 10.1177_1757177419892065
pmc: PMC7754805
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
60-67Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2019.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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