The effect of behavioural interventions targeting hand hygiene practices among nurses in high-income hospital settings: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand hygiene is a critical behaviour for infection control but efforts to raise compliance among clinical professionals have been met with mixed success. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the effectiveness of the behaviour change techniques utilised in recent hand hygiene interventions that seek to improve hand hygiene compliance among nurses in hospitals in high-income countries. Nurses are at the frontline of healthcare delivery, and so improving their HH behaviour and thus increasing HHC rates will have a relatively large impact on reducing transmission and preventing healthcare acquired infections.

Methods

High-quality studies among nurses in high-income countries were surveyed from the scientific literature, following PRISMA guidelines, to ide

SUBMITTER: Sands M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720577 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature