Healthcare workers' beliefs, attitudes and compliance with mobile phone hygiene in a main operating theatre complex.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phone hygiene is increasingly recognized in infection prevention. We aimed to explore the beliefs, attitudes and performance of phone hygiene amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) in the major operation theatre (MOT) complex of a Singapore tertiary acute care hospital. We also monitored the impact of phone hygiene stations, introduced to improve phone hygiene.

Methods

We sent two online anonymous surveys to the Departments of Anaesthesia and MOT Nurses one month before and after we set up phone hygiene stations. Four phone hygiene stations displaying visual phone hygiene reminders and Mikrozid® sensitive wipes were set up at MOT entrances.

Results

A total of 205 and 91 HCWs responded to the first and second surveys respectively. In the first survey, 11.5% clean

SUBMITTER: Leong XYA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8335933 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature