Knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Hand drying is the critical, final step of handwashing. A cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults assessed self-reported hand drying practices in public bathrooms and found increased preference for using electric hand dryers, wiping hands on clothing, and shaking hands and decreased preference for usi...

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Autores principales: Marcenac, Perrine, Kim, Sunkyung, Molinari, NoelleAngelique, Person, Margaret, Frankson, Rebekah, Berendes, David, McDonald, Christina, Yoder, Jonathan, Hill, Vincent, Garcia-Williams, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mosby 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33838180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.021
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author Marcenac, Perrine
Kim, Sunkyung
Molinari, NoelleAngelique
Person, Margaret
Frankson, Rebekah
Berendes, David
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Yoder, Jonathan
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Kim, Sunkyung
Molinari, NoelleAngelique
Person, Margaret
Frankson, Rebekah
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description Hand drying is the critical, final step of handwashing. A cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults assessed self-reported hand drying practices in public bathrooms and found increased preference for using electric hand dryers, wiping hands on clothing, and shaking hands and decreased preference for using paper towels during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to before. Respondents expressed concerns about contacting SARS-CoV-2 when touching surfaces in public bathrooms which may be influencing self-reported drying method preference.
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spelling pubmed-80256002021-04-07 Knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States Marcenac, Perrine Kim, Sunkyung Molinari, NoelleAngelique Person, Margaret Frankson, Rebekah Berendes, David McDonald, Christina Yoder, Jonathan Hill, Vincent Garcia-Williams, Amanda Am J Infect Control Brief Report Hand drying is the critical, final step of handwashing. A cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults assessed self-reported hand drying practices in public bathrooms and found increased preference for using electric hand dryers, wiping hands on clothing, and shaking hands and decreased preference for using paper towels during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to before. Respondents expressed concerns about contacting SARS-CoV-2 when touching surfaces in public bathrooms which may be influencing self-reported drying method preference. Mosby 2021-09 2021-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8025600/ /pubmed/33838180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.021 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Marcenac, Perrine
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Berendes, David
McDonald, Christina
Yoder, Jonathan
Hill, Vincent
Garcia-Williams, Amanda
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
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title_fullStr Knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
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title_short Knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and practices around hand drying in public bathrooms during the covid-19 pandemic in the united states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33838180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.021
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