Association of hand and arm disinfection with asthma control in US nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the association between occupational exposure to disinfectants/antiseptics used for hand hygiene and asthma control in nurses.

Methods

In 2014, we invited female nurses with asthma drawn from the Nurses' Health Study II to complete two supplemental questionnaires on their occupation and asthma (cross-sectional study, response rate: 80%). Among 4055 nurses (mean age: 59 years) with physician-diagnosed asthma and asthma medication use in the past year, we examined asthma control, as defined by the Asthma Control Test (ACT). Nurses were asked about the daily frequency of hand hygiene tasks: 'wash/scrub hands with disinfectants/hand sanitizers' (hand hygiene) and 'wash/scrub arms with disinfecting products' (surrogate of surgical hand/arm antisepsis). A

SUBMITTER: Dumas O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5899017 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature