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  • Development of a questionnaire to assess health care students’ hand hygiene knowledge, beliefs and practices

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    van de Mortel, T
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    van de Mortel, Thea F.
    Year published
    2009
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    Objective: To determine the reliability and validity of a hand hygiene questionnaire (HHQ) developed to examine health care students’ hand hygiene knowledge, beliefs and practices. Design: Pilot testing of the HHQ Setting: Undergraduate students of nursing undergoing university education Subjects: The HHQ was administered to 14 student nurse volunteers in the final year of their undergraduate degree and to another 45 volunteers following revision. Main outcome measures: Main outcomes measures were test-retest coefficients, Cronbach’s alpha values and mean inter-item correlations of the scale items. Results: The face ...
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    Objective: To determine the reliability and validity of a hand hygiene questionnaire (HHQ) developed to examine health care students’ hand hygiene knowledge, beliefs and practices. Design: Pilot testing of the HHQ Setting: Undergraduate students of nursing undergoing university education Subjects: The HHQ was administered to 14 student nurse volunteers in the final year of their undergraduate degree and to another 45 volunteers following revision. Main outcome measures: Main outcomes measures were test-retest coefficients, Cronbach’s alpha values and mean inter-item correlations of the scale items. Results: The face validity of the HHQ was high. Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.80, 0.74 and 0.77 were obtained for the Hand Hygiene Beliefs scale (HBS), the Hand Hygiene Practices Inventory (HHPI), and the Hand Hygiene Importance Scale (HIS) following removal of items with low item-to-total correlations or zero variance. The mean item-to-total correlations of the HBS, HHPI and IS were 0.37, 0.33, and 0.61 respectively. The two-week test-retest coefficients for each scale were 0.85, 0.79 and 0.89 respectively. Socially desirable responding was identified in participants’ responses to the HBS using the 11-item short form of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale. Conclusions: The HHQ demonstrated adequate reliability and validity and should be further tested on a wider sample of health care students.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume
    26
    Issue
    3
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    http://www.ajan.com.au/ajan_26.3.html
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Nursing
    Community and primary care
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/54759
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