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A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”

Adequate infection control plays a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed to explore staff perceptions of hospital infection control in a rural and an urban hospital in Vietnam. Individual interviews were conducted with hospital managers, and focus group dis...

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Autores principales: Lien, La Thi Quynh, Johansson, Eva, Lan, Pham Thi, Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim, Thoa, Nguyen Thi Minh, Hoa, Nguyen Quynh, Phuc, Ho Dang, Tamhankar, Ashok J., Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30037135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071549
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author Lien, La Thi Quynh
Johansson, Eva
Lan, Pham Thi
Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
Thoa, Nguyen Thi Minh
Hoa, Nguyen Quynh
Phuc, Ho Dang
Tamhankar, Ashok J.
Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby
author_facet Lien, La Thi Quynh
Johansson, Eva
Lan, Pham Thi
Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
Thoa, Nguyen Thi Minh
Hoa, Nguyen Quynh
Phuc, Ho Dang
Tamhankar, Ashok J.
Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby
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description Adequate infection control plays a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed to explore staff perceptions of hospital infection control in a rural and an urban hospital in Vietnam. Individual interviews were conducted with hospital managers, and focus group discussions were conducted with doctors, nurses and cleaning workers separately. Content analysis was applied. An interview guide including discussion points on HAIs, hand hygiene and healthcare waste management was used. Generally, the staff were knowledgeable of hospital infection control, but they were not aware of the situation in their own hospital, and infection control practices in the hospitals remained poor. Reported difficulties in infection control included lack of resources, poor awareness and patient overload. A main theme emerged: ‘Making data on HAIs available for health workers can improve their awareness and motivate them to put their existing knowledge into practice, thus decreasing the know-do gap in infection control’. This could be a feasible intervention to improve infection control practice in the hospitals with limited resources, high workload and patient overload.
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spelling pubmed-60689302018-08-07 A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour” Lien, La Thi Quynh Johansson, Eva Lan, Pham Thi Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim Thoa, Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa, Nguyen Quynh Phuc, Ho Dang Tamhankar, Ashok J. Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Adequate infection control plays a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed to explore staff perceptions of hospital infection control in a rural and an urban hospital in Vietnam. Individual interviews were conducted with hospital managers, and focus group discussions were conducted with doctors, nurses and cleaning workers separately. Content analysis was applied. An interview guide including discussion points on HAIs, hand hygiene and healthcare waste management was used. Generally, the staff were knowledgeable of hospital infection control, but they were not aware of the situation in their own hospital, and infection control practices in the hospitals remained poor. Reported difficulties in infection control included lack of resources, poor awareness and patient overload. A main theme emerged: ‘Making data on HAIs available for health workers can improve their awareness and motivate them to put their existing knowledge into practice, thus decreasing the know-do gap in infection control’. This could be a feasible intervention to improve infection control practice in the hospitals with limited resources, high workload and patient overload. MDPI 2018-07-22 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6068930/ /pubmed/30037135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071549 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lien, La Thi Quynh
Johansson, Eva
Lan, Pham Thi
Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
Thoa, Nguyen Thi Minh
Hoa, Nguyen Quynh
Phuc, Ho Dang
Tamhankar, Ashok J.
Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby
A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title_full A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title_fullStr A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title_full_unstemmed A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title_short A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam: “Providing Specific Figures on Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Hospital Staff Can ‘Wake Them Up’ to Change Their Behaviour”
title_sort potential way to decrease the know-do gap in hospital infection control in vietnam: “providing specific figures on healthcare-associated infections to the hospital staff can ‘wake them up’ to change their behaviour”
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30037135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071549
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