Handy Hygiene of Children: Understanding the Effect of Live Feedback on Handwashing Behavior

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Staake

Status: Completed

Conditions: Handwashing; Hand Hygiene

Treatments: Other: Live feedback during handwashing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04773288

Hand hygiene of children

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective of the randomized controlled trial is to assess the impact of a digital intervention on hand hygiene of young children. Children in intervention kindergartens / elementary schools will see live instructions and feedback on their current hand washing activity while washing hands. We hypothesize that the digital intervention will improve hand hygiene practices of children in kindergarten / elementary school.

Enrollment: 127 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children aged between 2 and 7 years of age
• children attending kindergarten

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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127 participants in 2 patient groups

Live feedback provided on display during handwashing

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Live feedback during handwashing

No live feedback provided during handwashing

No Intervention group