Behavioral Intention of Physician Trainees and Medical Students to Practice Hand Hygiene

Limper, Heather M.; Barton, Grant E.; McGinty, Michael; Landon, Emily; O’Boyle, Carol; Reddy, Shalini; Weber, Stephen G.

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“…Hand washing is accepted as the most effective, economical, and the easiest infection control measure all over the world. 7,8 World Health Organization reported that 45% of gastrointestinal and 10 to 44% of respiratory tract infections could be prevented just by improved HHPs. 9 This study showed that HHPs of the mothers, main caregivers of the pediatric patients after the pediatric staff in pediatric wards, were mainly affected by age, education level, and the anxiety they experienced in the peroperative period.…”

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Comparison of Hand Hygiene Attitudes and Hand Swab Cultures in the Mothers of Children with Heart Disease Before and After Cardiac Surgery

Karaağaç

2017

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Nosocomial infections (NI) carry high risk of morbidity and mortality especially for children undergoing surgeries. Hand hygiene (HH) is the most effective and economic measure of NI control. This study was designed to compare the HH practices (HHPs), maternal anxiety scores (MASs), and hand swab cultures (HSCs) in the mothers of children with heart disease before and after cardiovascular surgery (CVS) to determine the factors that raised maternal HH sensitivity for prevention of NI. This prospective study included 120 mothers (age: 20–45 years; mean: 31.6 ± 5.6 years), whose children underwent CVS in the Kartal Koşuyolu Research and Training Hospital, University of Health Sciences between November 2016 and February 2017. HHP of each mother was assessed by a questionnaire, 10 questions in two parts and HH score (HHS) was acquired. Then, HSC was obtained. Beck anxiety inventory was applied to determine MAS. The relations among demographic characteristics, MAS, HSC results, and pre-/postoperative HHS of the mothers were compared statistically. There was a significant increase in the HHS of the mothers in the postoperative period. Cronbach's a coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.84. Maternal HHS was significantly correlated with maternal age (p = 0.001), education (p = 0.002), and MAS (p = 0.001), but not with the income (p = 0.2). Moreover, one mother in the postoperative period (0.8%) versus five mothers in the preoperative (4.2%) had positive HSC. High education level, advanced age, and severe anxiety experienced by the mothers in their children's perioperative period were found to be the main factors that have raised maternal HHS, thereby resulting in better HSC results.

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Comparison of Hand Hygiene Attitudes and Hand Swab Cultures in the Mothers of Children with Heart Disease Before and After Cardiac Surgery

Karaağaç

2017

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“…Another predictive factor in this model of IPC behaviour is perceived benefits. Previous research has shown that as medical students progress towards the final years of their training they are less likely to see the value of hand hygiene for protecting themselves from acquiring antibioticresistant microorganisms and to prevent carrying microorganisms home (Limper et al, 2013).…”

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Re-thinking microbiology/infection control education to enhance the practice-readiness of health professional students: More than just a curriculum issue

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Simpson

Letts

et al. 2015

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“…Despite all the efforts made in the field of hand hygiene and the use of various methods to improve it, results of other studies suggest low levels of hand hygiene among health care students. 7 Compliance with hand hygiene varies based on hospital, department and working conditions. 8 Hand hygiene compliance is affected by several factors including the personal knowledge of hand hygiene, perception of the benefits, professional background, gender, infectious disease severity, work intensity and presence of facilities.…”

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Factors influencing hand hygiene compliance of healthcare students

Elsafi¹,

Al-Howti²

2019

Int. j. infect. control

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Hand hygiene is the most effective way to control healthcare-associated infections. The aim of this study is to measure the hand hygiene awareness and practices in relation to various variables among the healthcare students. A structured validated questionnaire was completed by the participants to assess their awareness and compliance with hand hygiene. The average knowledge score of 500 students was 6.24/10 with a significant difference between various departments (p = 0.001). Knowledge significantly increased by advanced years of study. The average attitude and practice scores were 6.96 and 5.13, respectively with significant differences only in practice between various departments but not within other variables. Despite an overall good knowledge and attitude, the compliance of hand hygiene was generally poor. These findings suggested that other factors than knowledge and attitude might play a role in compliance. Although there appears to be a direct correlation with knowledge and year of study (Correlation coefficient r = 0.96) a weaker correlation value was detected with attitude (r = 0.02). Conversely, we detected a negative correlation between compliance with hand hygiene and the year of study (r = -0.55). In contrast to many other studies, no gender difference in attitude and practice in this study.

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Behavioral Intention of Physician Trainees and Medical Students to Practice Hand Hygiene

Cited by 10 publications

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Comparison of Hand Hygiene Attitudes and Hand Swab Cultures in the Mothers of Children with Heart Disease Before and After Cardiac Surgery

Comparison of Hand Hygiene Attitudes and Hand Swab Cultures in the Mothers of Children with Heart Disease Before and After Cardiac Surgery

Re-thinking microbiology/infection control education to enhance the practice-readiness of health professional students: More than just a curriculum issue

Factors influencing hand hygiene compliance of healthcare students

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