Epidemiological Study on Hand Hygiene Practices Among Health Care Workers at Infectious Diseases Hospital Kano, Nigeria

Aliyu, Ahmad Salisu

doi:10.21522/tijph.2013.07.02.art008

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“… 10 Besides, Imai and colleagues 22 argued that older age correlates with an increased ability to cope with emergencies related to infectious diseases. On the contrary, Aliyu and colleagues 23 found good IPC practices among younger HCWs before the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, while Mitchell and colleagues 24 did not find any relationship with age or sex. We found female HCWs to be more compliant with IPC guidance than their male counterparts.…”

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Compliance of healthcare workers with the infection prevention and control guidance in tertiary care hospitals: quantitative findings from an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study in Bangladesh

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ObjectivesTo assess healthcare workers’ (HCWs) compliance with the infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and identify the factors influencing this compliance using the Health Belief Model as the theoretical framework.DesignQuantitative data from an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study were employed in this research.Participants and settingsFrom 17 May to 30 August 2020, 604 physicians and nurses working at six randomly selected tertiary care facilities in Dhaka City in Bangladesh took part in this study.Primary and secondary outcome measuresCompliance with the WHO’s guidance on IPC measures, as well as the associated factors, was the primary outcome.ResultsA mean compliance score of 0.49 (±0.25) was observed on a 0–1 scale. HCWs were most compliant with the medical mask wearing guidelines (81%) and were least compliant with the high-touch surface decontamination regulations (23%). Compliance with the IPC guidance was significantly associated with increasing age, female sex, working as a nurse, having non-communicable diseases and history of exposure to patients with COVID-19. Perceived benefits (B=0.039, 95% CI 0.001 to 0.076), self-efficacy (B=0.101, 95% CI 0.060 to 0.142) and cues to action (B=0.045, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.088) were positively associated with compliance. Compliance with IPC guidance was 0.061 times greater among participants who reported low perceived barriers compared with those with high perceived barriers.ConclusionOverall, compliance with IPC guidance among HCWs was unsatisfactory. As self-efficacy exerted the greatest contribution to compliance, it should be emphasised in any endeavour to improve HCWs’ IPC adherence. Such interventions should also focus on perceived barriers, including unreliability of the information sources, unsafe working places and unavailability of protective equipment and cues to action, including trust in the administration and availability of adequate IPC guidance.

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Compliance of healthcare workers with the infection prevention and control guidance in tertiary care hospitals: quantitative findings from an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study in Bangladesh

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“…This shows that completing the task is more important than performing hand hygiene. For Yildirim et al, (2008) as cited by Aliyu et al, (2019) [1] reported that adherence to recommended handwashing practices remains unacceptably low, rarely exceeding of situations in which hand hygiene is indicated. The current results further revealed that nursing students were non-compliant on recommended situations where handwashing is needed.…”

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Nursing Students Knowledge and Practice Regarding Handwashing in Riyadh Elm University: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Ahmed,

Gharbi Alenzi,

Ibrahim

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IJAMRS

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Hand hygiene is one of the most important procedures performed in health care institutions by all the staff providing health care to patients. Less compliance to hand hygiene and lack of performing hand hygiene among students when going to the patient ward during their clinical rotation in the hospital provoked to focus on this study. Descriptive research design was utilized under cross-sectional survey. The data was collected by both questionnaires to assess the nursing student’s knowledge and checklist to assess the students practice level. The adapted questionnaire was pre-tested before the conduct of the study. A number of 27 nursing students represent the total sample of the study. They were selected using convenience sampling technique. Once the data were collected, it was analyzed with statistical treatment using SPSS version 22.0. Main findings have shown that nursing students were highly knowledgeable in performing handwashing during recommended situations and handwashing is a habit to their personal life. Completing the task than performing hand hygiene was the area need to focus among nursing students. There is a significant relationship between demographic characteristics and knowledge and practice level.

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“…There are quite a number of studies on hand hygiene practices in developing countries. A study carried out at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Kano, showed that time spent washing hands by health care workers was 12.36% of the 40-60 seconds recommended by WHO (20-30 seconds if using an alcohol-based hand rub) with only 28% of nurses and 23% of doctors following hand hygiene practices (Aliyu, 2019). A similar study carried out in Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, revealed an overall compliance of 32.5% (Shobowale, Onyedibe, Adegunle, Elikwu, 2017).…”

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Evaluation of Hand Hygiene Facilities and Compliance of Healthcare Workers at The University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo

Alao¹,

Farotimi²

2022

IJNMH

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Hand Hygiene (HH) is the leading measure for preventing the spread of pathogens and reducing health care associated infections, health care providers’ adherence to recommended practices remains suboptimal in most settings, and maintaining its standards is difficult to sustain. However, Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain the most common adverse event in healthcare, resulting in a significant burden on patients, their families, and health care systems. This study examines evaluation of hand hygiene facilities and compliance of health care workers at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study that was made up of 324 participants. Multi-stage sampling technique was used for the selection of participants. Self-administered questionnaire and observational checklists were used as tools for data collection. The reliability value of the questionnaire eliciting responses on self-reported compliance to hand hygiene technique techniques ranges from 0.703 to 0.764. Data were analysed using SPSS version 27. Inferential statistics of Chi Square was used test the hypothesis generated at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that none of the wards met the standard for hand hygiene facilities set by the WHO. 83.3% of the units had no poster or written policy on HH; 87% did not have alcohol-based hand rubs; 100% had at least one handwash sink; 100% had flowing tap water all day; and 100% had no hand drying facilities. Assessment of self-reported hand hygiene compliance showed that 86.42% of the respondents have good compliance to hand washing technique guideline with a mean score is 23.72 of 27 (87.85%) and 90.1% of the respondents have good compliance to hand hygiene using alcohol-based hand rub technique with a mean score is 19.68 of 21 (93.71%). A total of 1,016 hand hygiene opportunities were observed during the three-week period with an overall compliance rate of 29.9%. The compliance rate among nurses (31.2%) is higher than among doctors (21.8%). In recorded hand hygiene actions, hand washing is used slightly more frequently than alcohol-based hand rubs. The use of gloves is a major reason for missed opportunities in hand hygiene, responsible for 39.3% of missed opportunities.The study concluded that the availability of hand hygiene facilities and HCWs compliance at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo is poor. The study also confirmed that while the self-reported hand hygiene compliance is high, the observed compliance with hand hygiene techniques is low. Specific measures such as improved facilities, training and monitoring are needed to improve HH compliance.

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Epidemiological Study on Hand Hygiene Practices Among Health Care Workers at Infectious Diseases Hospital Kano, Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Compliance of healthcare workers with the infection prevention and control guidance in tertiary care hospitals: quantitative findings from an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study in Bangladesh

Compliance of healthcare workers with the infection prevention and control guidance in tertiary care hospitals: quantitative findings from an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study in Bangladesh

Nursing Students Knowledge and Practice Regarding Handwashing in Riyadh Elm University: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Evaluation of Hand Hygiene Facilities and Compliance of Healthcare Workers at The University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo

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