A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection interventions in settings with children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one's body and in the surrounding environment, more effective interventions should simultaneously encourage personal-hygiene (e.g. hand-hygiene) and environmental-disinfecting (e.g. cleaning surfaces). To inform the development of a future multi-faceted intervention to improve public health, a systematic literature review was conducted on behavior change interventions designed to increase hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfecting in settings likely to include children.

Methods

The search was conducted over two comprehensive data-bases, Ebsco Medline and Web of Science, to locate intervention studies that aimed to increase hand-

SUBMITTER: Staniford LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7006391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature