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
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

60-67

Informations 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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Auteurs

Dina Lary (D)

School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.

Aaron Calvert (A)

School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.

Brigitte Nerlich (B)

School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.

Joel Segal (J)

Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.

Natalie Vaughan (N)

Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, UK.

Jacqueline Randle (J)

School of Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Midwifery, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, UK.
Endoscopy Unit, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, Devon, UK.

Kim R Hardie (KR)

School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.

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