Hand hygiene: the impact of incentive strategies on adherence among healthcare workers from a newborn intensive care unit

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Zilah Cândida Pereira Das Neves²  Anaclara Ferreira Veiga Tipple¹  Adenícia Custódia Silva E Souza¹  Milca Severino Pereira¹  Dulcelene De Sousa Melo¹  Lucimar Rodrigues Ferreira¹ 

[1] ,State Health Secretary - GO GO

关键词: handwashing;    continuing education;    cross infection;    nursing;    lavado de manos;    educación continua;    infección hospitalaria;    enfermería;    lavagem de mãos;    educação contínua;    infecção hospitalar;    enfermagem;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692006000400012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We carried out a before-after non-controlled intervention study to assess the impact of different handwashing strategies in health care workers at a neonatal ICU in Goiânia - Goiás, Brazil. All ethical aspects were considered. Data was collected by using a check list in order to register hand hygiene opportunities during six months. Three strategies were elaborated together with the hospital team. We observed 1358 handwashing opportunities. Incentive strategies caused a small impact on the increase of adherence to hand hygiene during and after the implementation period. However, we noticed that this increase mainly occurred after the procedures were realized. On the whole, adherence levels were similar before (62.2%) and after (61.6%) the procedures. The study showed that health care workers were more worried about individual risks.

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