Simplifying the World Health Organization (WHO) Protocol for Hand Hygiene: Three Steps and 15 Seconds (SIHAG II)

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hand Hygiene

Treatments: Procedure: Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds; Procedure: Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds; Procedure: Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds; Procedure: Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04102488

2019-01518 me19Widmer;

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to investigate that non-inferiority in terms of reduction of bacterial counts will be retained when combining the simpler three-step technique for the use of hand rub with a shorter application time of 15 seconds.

Full description

The WHO guideline recommends 30 seconds for application of hand rub, however, mean bacterial reduction after 15 seconds of hand rubbing has been recently shown to be non-inferior and shortening application time to 15 seconds has been suggested to improve the frequency of hand hygiene actions in a neonatal care unit. This study is to investigate that non-inferiority in terms of reduction of bacterial counts will be retained when combining the simpler three-step technique for the use of hand rub with a shorter application time of 15 seconds.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 31 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical students are eligible for participation
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• No signed informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 4 patient groups

6-step hygiene technique, application time of 30 seconds

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds

6-step hygiene technique, application time of 15 seconds

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds

3-step hygiene technique, application time of 30 seconds

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds

3-step hygiene technique, application time of 15 seconds

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds