Hand Hygiene Intervention Study in Finnish Garrison (VirusFight)

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Status: Suspended

Conditions: Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Hand washing with soap and water; Behavioral: Hand cleaning with alcohol-containing hand rub; Behavioral: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01887730

THL/81/6.05.00/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study the investigators aim to elucidate the possibility to reduce occurrence of infectious diseases in a garrison with enhanced and guided hand hygiene. The investigators will study occurrence and transmission of infections. In addition, the investigators will find out the causative agents of infections in a garrison with virological analyses of naso-pharyngeal and fecal specimens. The costs of lost service days and other expenses due to infectious diseases will be evaluated with a cost analysis study.

Enrollment: 1,120 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• willingness to attend to the study

Exclusion criteria

• skin diseases which prevent using hand disinfectants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,120 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

arm 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hand washing with soap and water according to instructions. The effect of intervention is assessed by following occurrence of infections.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hand washing with soap and water

arm 0

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

No specific advice on hand hygiene. The effect of intervention is assessed by following occurrence of infections.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control

Arm 3

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hand cleaning with alcohol-containing hand rub

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hand cleaning with alcohol-containing hand rub