biostudies-literatureUnknown19(9)Trifunovic-Koenig MMessmer Foundation RadolfzellIntroduction: Training in hand hygiene for health care workers is essential to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately, training in this competency may be perceived as tedious, time-consuming, and expendable. In preceding studies, our working group detected overconfidence effects in the self-assessment of hand hygiene competencies. Overconfidence is the belief of being better than others (overplacement) or being better than tests reveal (overestimation). The belief that members of their profession are better than other professionals is attributable to the clinical tribalism phenomenon. The study aimed to assess the correlation of overconfidence effects on hand hygiene and their association with four motivational dimensions (intrinsic, identified, external, and amotivation) to atInternational journal of environmental research and public healthhttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9100152biostudies-literatureCorrelation between Overconfidence and Learning Motivation in Postgraduate Infection Prevention and Control TrainingPMC9100152Otto BGerber BFischer MDettenkofer MSalm FTrifunovic-Koenig MBushuven SfalseCorrelation between Overconfidence and Learning Motivation in Postgraduate Infection Prevention and Control TrainingIntroduction: Training in hand hygiene for health care workers is essential to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately, training in this competency may be perceived as tedious, time-consuming, and expendable. In preceding studies, our working group detected overconfidence effects in the self-assessment of hand hygiene competencies. Overconfidence is the belief of being better than others (overplacement) or being better than tests reveal (overestimation). The belief that members of their profession are better than other professionals is attributable to the clinical tribalism phenomenon. The study aimed to assess the correlation of overconfidence effects on hand hygiene and their association with four motivational dimensions (intrinsic, identified, external, and amotivation) to at2022-01-01T00:00:00Z2022 May2025-04-04T18:39:31.264Z2025-02-19T00:55:32.021ZS-EPMC9100152