Assessment of hand hygiene of nursing and medical students

Abstract

Objective: to verify the ability of nursing and medical academics related to hand hygiene technique. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study carried out with 61 academics. Hands hygiene with 70.0% alcohol gel was used, in which Visirub® fluorescent dye was added, which allowed observing areas not contemplated during hand hygiene and investigation of the eight steps recommended by the World Health Organization. Results: 35.7% of nursing academics and 15.1% of medical students used the hand hygiene technique with 70.0% alcohol gel following the eight recommended steps. The least accomplished steps by the nursing academics were "rubbing the back of each hand with the back of the other", as 46.4% did not perform it. Among medicine students, the least accomplished step was "rubbing the back of the fingers with the palm of the other hand", by 63.6%. No scholar was able to contemplate all areas. Conclusion: no academic has been able to perform hand hygiene in all areas properly, hence the need to reinforce the correct technique.

Knowledge, Attitude and Performance of Nursing Students Towards Hand Hygiene in Medical and Surgical Wards of Zanjan Teaching Hospitals in 2019 -2020

“…Students were allowed to participate in the study based on having characteristics such as being in the third to fourth year, having an internship in the medical and surgical wards and tendency to participate in the study. Due to the lack of similar studies on Iranian students, the sample size was determined based on the study of Da Silva et al [16]. In the above study, the rate of hand hygiene compliance among nursing students was 35.7%.…”

“…A study by Mahmood et al (2016) in India showed that 72% of the nursing students under study had moderate knowledge about hand hygiene and only 52% of them complied with hand hygiene [15]. In this regard, the study of Da Silva in Brazil (2012) on 61 medical and nursing students showed that only 35.7% of nursing students and 15.1% of medical students followed the seven steps recommended by the World Health Organization [16]. The study of Jeong and Kim (2016) also showed that 68% of nursing students in South Korea had sufficient knowledge about hand hygiene and according to their study, this level of knowledge is undesirable and can not change attitudes about hand hygiene and consequently lead to poor performance in hygiene compliance [17].…”

Posters as a Tool to Improve Hand Hygiene among Health Science Students: Case—Control Study

“…Škodová et al [ 25 ] confirmed that the most contaminated areas after HH are the thumbs and interdigital areas of the non-dominant hand. The decision was made to sample only that hand, in line with Cruz and Bashtawi [ 32 ], Elola-Vicente et al [ 21 ], Silva et al [ 33 ], and Škodová et al [ 25 ].…”

Health Technology Assessment of Ultraviolate light based imaging technology to reduce burden of hospital acquired infections: A Study Protocol

“…Over last few years, there has been a wide use of ultraviolate (UV) based uorescent markers for assessing quality of hand hygiene [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. This technological intervention involves performance of recommended WHO six steps using Alcohol-based hand rub with a uorescent marker by health care workers followed by viewing under UV based lamp to identify the quality of hand hygiene.…”