Implementation of Directly Observed Hand Hygiene in Residential Care Home for the Elderly: a Cluster Randomized Trial

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Multidrug Resistant Organisms

Treatments: Behavioral: Directly observed hand hygiene

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03224169

QMH_MICT_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

To screen the prevalence of multidrug resistant organisms among the resident in the residential care home for the elderly, and assess the practicability of directly observed hand hygiene in this setting.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residents living the residential care home for the elderly and able to give consent

Exclusion criteria

• Those who cannot give consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Directly observed hand hygiene

Treatment:

Behavioral: Directly observed hand hygiene

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No directly observed hand hygiene