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Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges
BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene (HH) is considered the most important measure to tackle the transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens. However, compliance with recommendations is usually low and effective improvement strategies are needed. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of an intervention targe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32813132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-00039-w |
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author | Ben Fredj, Sihem Ben Cheikh, Asma Bhiri, Sana Ghali, Hela Khefacha, Salwa Dhidah, Lamine Merzougui, Latifa Ben Rejeb, Mohamed Said Latiri, Houyem |
author_facet | Ben Fredj, Sihem Ben Cheikh, Asma Bhiri, Sana Ghali, Hela Khefacha, Salwa Dhidah, Lamine Merzougui, Latifa Ben Rejeb, Mohamed Said Latiri, Houyem |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene (HH) is considered the most important measure to tackle the transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens. However, compliance with recommendations is usually low and effective improvement strategies are needed. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of an intervention targeting hand hygiene promotion among healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: We conducted a pre-post interventional study design in the university hospital Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia, from January 2015 to December 2016. The intervention program consisted of training sessions and distribution of posters of hand hygiene guidelines. To assess the evolution of HH observance at pre- and post-intervention, the same observation form was distributed and collected at healthcare workers’ workplace. RESULTS: Of the 1201 and 1057 opportunities for hand hygiene observed among all categories of HCWs, overall compliance enhanced significantly from 32.1 to 39.4% (p < 0.001) respectively at pre- and post-intervention. Nurses were the most compliant with a significant improvement from 34.1 to 45.7% (p < 0.001) respectively at pre- and post-intervention. Furthermore, analysis by department showed significant improvement of compliance in orthopedic department (p < 0.001), maxillofacial-surgery department (p < 0.001), pediatrics department (p = 0.013), and emergencies (p = 0.038). CONCLUSION: This study showed the feasibility and effectiveness of a health-setting-based intervention to enhance hand hygiene observance in the context of a developing country. |
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spelling | pubmed-73647222020-07-29 Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges Ben Fredj, Sihem Ben Cheikh, Asma Bhiri, Sana Ghali, Hela Khefacha, Salwa Dhidah, Lamine Merzougui, Latifa Ben Rejeb, Mohamed Said Latiri, Houyem J Egypt Public Health Assoc Research BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene (HH) is considered the most important measure to tackle the transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens. However, compliance with recommendations is usually low and effective improvement strategies are needed. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of an intervention targeting hand hygiene promotion among healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: We conducted a pre-post interventional study design in the university hospital Sahloul, Sousse, Tunisia, from January 2015 to December 2016. The intervention program consisted of training sessions and distribution of posters of hand hygiene guidelines. To assess the evolution of HH observance at pre- and post-intervention, the same observation form was distributed and collected at healthcare workers’ workplace. RESULTS: Of the 1201 and 1057 opportunities for hand hygiene observed among all categories of HCWs, overall compliance enhanced significantly from 32.1 to 39.4% (p < 0.001) respectively at pre- and post-intervention. Nurses were the most compliant with a significant improvement from 34.1 to 45.7% (p < 0.001) respectively at pre- and post-intervention. Furthermore, analysis by department showed significant improvement of compliance in orthopedic department (p < 0.001), maxillofacial-surgery department (p < 0.001), pediatrics department (p = 0.013), and emergencies (p = 0.038). CONCLUSION: This study showed the feasibility and effectiveness of a health-setting-based intervention to enhance hand hygiene observance in the context of a developing country. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7364722/ /pubmed/32813132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-00039-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Ben Fredj, Sihem Ben Cheikh, Asma Bhiri, Sana Ghali, Hela Khefacha, Salwa Dhidah, Lamine Merzougui, Latifa Ben Rejeb, Mohamed Said Latiri, Houyem Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title | Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title_full | Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title_fullStr | Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title_short | Multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
title_sort | multimodal intervention program to improve hand hygiene compliance: effectiveness and challenges |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364722/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32813132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42506-020-00039-w |
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