Hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices among hospital inpatients: A descriptive study - 23/04/20
, Sung Min Cho, BSc a, e, Cindy O'Neill, MLT b, Anne Bialachowski, BN, MS f, R. Ayesha Ali, PhD g, Christine Lee, MD a, b, f, h, i, Dominik Mertz, MD, MSc a, b, i, jHighlights |
• | Self-reported patient hand hygiene rates are suboptimal. |
• | There are knowledge gaps among patients as to when to perform hand hygiene. |
• | Patients are not receptive to receiving traditional educational interventions. |
• | Intervention foci may include bedside hand sanitizer, reminders, or role modeling. |
Résumé |
Background |
Pathogens may be transmitted in hospitals via patients’ own hands, but little is known about the facilitators and barriers of hand hygiene among inpatients. This study aimed to assess the hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices of adult inpatients at 5 hospitals.
Methods |
The study consisted of a cross-sectional survey distributed followed by structured interviews with randomly selected inpatients. Qualitative data were analyzed independently by 2 researchers using the Theoretical Domains Framework.
Results |
A total of 268 surveys were completed, with 66.4% of patients reporting always performing hand hygiene after toileting and 49.2% before eating. The majority of patients (74.6%) stated that they did not want to receive more information about hand hygiene while in the hospital. Key themes identified from 23 interviews include knowledge; environmental context and resources; memory, attention, and decision processes; and social influences.
Conclusions |
Self-reported patient hand hygiene rates are suboptimal and there are knowledge gaps among patients as to when to perform hand hygiene, but patients are not receptive to receiving traditional educational interventions. Future interventions to improve patient hand hygiene should focus on other behavior change domains, including environmental context and resources (eg, access to hand sanitizer at the bedside), memory, attention, and decision processes (eg, posters or other reminders), and social influences (eg, role modeling).
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : Theoretical Domains Framework, Patient hand contamination, Hand hygiene survey, Qualitative research
Plan
| Funding/support: This study was funded by a Hamilton Health Sciences Quality and Patient Safety Grant. |
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| Conflicts of interest: None to report. |
Vol 48 - N° 5
P. 507-510 - mai 2020 Retour au numéro
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