Effectiveness of an edutainment video teaching standard precautions - a randomized controlled evaluation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standard precautions are essential to prevent pathogen transmission and nosocomial infections. We assessed learning effect (primary outcome) and satisfaction (secondary outcome) of watching a 5-min humorous "edutainment (=education and entertainment) video" on Standard Precautions compared to reading a written standard operating procedure (SOP) or receiving no intervention.

Methods

This randomized controlled trial was executed at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, a tertiary care centre with a state-of-the-art infection prevention programme. Healthcare providers (HCPs) of different medical departments were 1:1:1 randomized to watching the edutainment video (video group), reading the SOP (SOP group), or no study-specific intervention (no-intervention grou

SUBMITTER: Wolfensberger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530153 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature