How to make hand hygiene interventions more attractive to nurses: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Better understanding of the characteristics of interventions which are attractive to nurses is required in order to implement effective hand hygiene interventions.

Methods

The intervention characteristics were derived from diffusion of innovation theory (DIT): relative advantage, compatibility, simplicity, trialability, and observability. To identify nurses' preferences for the five characteristics, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted. Participants were nurses working at Taiwanese tertiary care hospitals selected through stratified sampling. In addition, the hand hygiene moment (before or after patient contact) was taken into consideration in the DCE to investigate whether nurses' preferences for the intervention characteristics were the same at diffe

SUBMITTER: Zhao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084975 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature