Using environmental engineering to increase hand hygiene compliance: a cross-over study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Compliance with hand hygiene recommendations in hospital is typically less than 50%. Such low compliance inevitably contributes to hospital-acquired infections that negatively affect patients' well-being and hospitals' finances. The design of the present study is predicated on the assumption that most people who fail to clean their hands are not doing so intentionally, they just forget. The present study will test whether psychological priming can be used to increase the number of people who clean their hands on entering a ward. Here, we present the protocol for this study.

Methods and analysis

The study will use a randomised cross-over design. During the study, each of four wards will be observed during four conditions: olfactory prime, visual prime, both prime

SUBMITTER: Schmidtke KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5595189 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature