Hand hygiene during facility-based childbirth in Cambodia: a theory-driven, mixed-methods observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite current efforts to improve hand hygiene in health care facilities, compliance among birth attendants remains low. Current improvement strategies are inadequate, largely focusing on a limited set of known behavioural determinants or addressing hand hygiene as part of a generalized set of hygiene behaviours. To inform the design of a facility -based hand hygiene behaviour change intervention in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia, a theory-driven formative research study was conducted to investigate the context specific behaviours and determinants of handwashing during labour and delivery among birth attendants.

Methods

This formative mixed-methods research followed a sequential explanatory design and was conducted across eight healthcare facilities. The hand hygiene

SUBMITTER: Nalule Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212449 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature