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  • Hand hygiene compliance and behavioural determinants in a paediatric intensive care unit: An observational study

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    Author(s)
    Belela-Anacleto, ASC
    Kusahara, DM
    Peterlini, MAS
    Pedreira, MLG
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    Pedreira, Mavilde
    Year published
    2019
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    Background: Hand hygiene is considered the single most effective means of reducing healthcare-associated infections, but improving and sustaining hand hygiene compliance remains a great challenge. Objectives: To compare hand hygiene compliance before and after interventions to promote adherence in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to identify predictors of intention to perform the behaviour “hand hygiene during patient care in the PICU”. Methods: A before and after study was conducted in three phases. Based on the World Health Organization guideline for hand hygiene compliance monitoring, 1261 hand hygiene opportunities ...
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    Background: Hand hygiene is considered the single most effective means of reducing healthcare-associated infections, but improving and sustaining hand hygiene compliance remains a great challenge. Objectives: To compare hand hygiene compliance before and after interventions to promote adherence in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to identify predictors of intention to perform the behaviour “hand hygiene during patient care in the PICU”. Methods: A before and after study was conducted in three phases. Based on the World Health Organization guideline for hand hygiene compliance monitoring, 1261 hand hygiene opportunities were directly observed during routine patient care by two observers simultaneously, in a nine-bed PICU in Brazil, before and after infrastructure and educational interventions. To identify predictors of healthcare professionals' intention to perform the behaviour hand hygiene during patient care, a data collection instrument was designed based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Statistical analyses were undertaken using Chi-square test or the Fisher's exact test and regression analysis. A significance level of 5% (p < 0.05) was applied to all analyses. Results: The hand hygiene compliance rate increased significantly from 27.3% in the “pre-intervention phase” to 33.1% in “phase 1—post-intervention,” to 37.0% in “phase 2—post-intervention” (p =.010). Perceived social pressure (p =.026) was a determinant factor of intention to perform the behaviour. Conclusions: Hand hygiene compliance raised significantly after infrastructure, educational, and performance feedback interventions. However, despite the significant effect of the implemented interventions, the overall hand hygiene compliance rate was low. Perceived social pressure characterised a determinant factor of intention to perform the behaviour “hand hygiene during patient care in the PICU”, reinforcing the need for behaviour determinants analysis when designing promotional interventions.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Critical Care
    Volume
    32
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2018.02.010
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    © 2019 Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Ltd. Published by Elsevier Australia. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Nursing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385421
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