Helping Hands: Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses

Radboud University Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Handwashing

Treatments: Behavioral: state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00548015

RG000279

ZonMw 945-17-101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hand hygiene prescriptions are the most important measure in the prevention of hospital acquired infections. Yet compliance rates are generally below 50% of all opportunities for hand hygiene adherence. This study will test the short- and long term effects of two strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses

Enrollment: 900 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hand hygiene opportunities at the point of patient care

Exclusion criteria

• Hand hygiene opportunities not concerning patient care like personal hygiene

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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900 participants in 2 patient groups

State of the Art strategy

Active Comparator group

Description:

education, reminders, performance feedback,

Treatment:

Behavioral: state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy

extended strategy

Experimental group

Description:

state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting

Treatment:

Behavioral: state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy