Learning hand hygiene from the champions: Investigating key compliance facilitators among healthcare workers through interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Good hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers is crucial for preventing healthcare-associated infections. While an extensive amount of research has focused on barriers to compliance with hand hygiene guidelines, there remains a critical gap in understanding the factors contributing to consistently excellent compliance among some individuals. Thus, the main aim of this study is to learn from these "champions" of hand hygiene and identify facilitating factors that enable and sustain high compliance using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).

Methods

In this qualitative study, we conducted problem-oriented semi-structured interviews with questions based on the 14 domains of the revised TDF. The N = 25 participants included physicians and nurses from thre

SUBMITTER: von Auer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658492 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature