TY - JOUR
T1 - Patients’ capability, opportunity, motivation, and perception of inpatient hand hygiene
AU - Knighton, Shanina C.
AU - Richmond, Marian
AU - Zabarsky, Trina
AU - Dolansky, Mary
AU - Rai, Herleen
AU - Donskey, Curtis J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding/support: This publication was made possible by the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland (KL2TR000440) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the NIH National Institute for Nursing Research (T32NR015433-04), and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Conflicts of interest: C.J.D. has received research grants from GOJO, EcoLab, and Clorox.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Background: Studies that examine the perceptions and behaviors of patients regarding patient hand hygiene rarely examine the viewpoint of patients about their hand hygiene behavior relative to current resources provided in the hospital. Methods: Voluntary interviews that employed a 16-item survey tool were used among patients (N = 107) in outpatient clinics at post-admission visits. The survey was created using the Behavior Change Wheel, Capability, Opportunity, Motivation Behavior model. Patients were asked whether they brought hand sanitizer to the hospital, used hospital resources to clean their hands, and their perspective on patient hand hygiene importance compared with hospital staff, as well as their satisfaction or lack of satisfaction with hand hygiene independence. Results: Most of the participants (65, 60.7%) reported that prior to being admitted to the hospital, they were able to maintain cleaning their hands with little or no difficulty. During their admission, only 21 (19.6%) of the participants reported needing little or no assistance. More than one-half of the participants, 34 (31.8%) and 23 (21.5%), respectively, reported, mostly or completely agreeing that the hand hygiene of the health care staff was more important than their own. Close to one-half of the participants (50, 46.7%) reported not being satisfied at all with their ability to maintain their hand hygiene in the hospital, whereas only 10 (9.3%) were very satisfied with their ability to maintain hand hygiene. Conclusions: Findings from this study will enhance our understanding of how to incorporate inpatient hand hygiene into existing infection control programs in inpatient settings.
AB - Background: Studies that examine the perceptions and behaviors of patients regarding patient hand hygiene rarely examine the viewpoint of patients about their hand hygiene behavior relative to current resources provided in the hospital. Methods: Voluntary interviews that employed a 16-item survey tool were used among patients (N = 107) in outpatient clinics at post-admission visits. The survey was created using the Behavior Change Wheel, Capability, Opportunity, Motivation Behavior model. Patients were asked whether they brought hand sanitizer to the hospital, used hospital resources to clean their hands, and their perspective on patient hand hygiene importance compared with hospital staff, as well as their satisfaction or lack of satisfaction with hand hygiene independence. Results: Most of the participants (65, 60.7%) reported that prior to being admitted to the hospital, they were able to maintain cleaning their hands with little or no difficulty. During their admission, only 21 (19.6%) of the participants reported needing little or no assistance. More than one-half of the participants, 34 (31.8%) and 23 (21.5%), respectively, reported, mostly or completely agreeing that the hand hygiene of the health care staff was more important than their own. Close to one-half of the participants (50, 46.7%) reported not being satisfied at all with their ability to maintain their hand hygiene in the hospital, whereas only 10 (9.3%) were very satisfied with their ability to maintain hand hygiene. Conclusions: Findings from this study will enhance our understanding of how to incorporate inpatient hand hygiene into existing infection control programs in inpatient settings.
KW - Inpatient hygiene
KW - Patient behavior
KW - Patient capability
KW - Patient hand
KW - Patient perceptions
KW - Patient practice
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.09.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 31672318
AN - SCOPUS:85074502474
SN - 0196-6553
VL - 48
SP - 157
EP - 161
JO - American Journal of Infection Control
JF - American Journal of Infection Control
IS - 2
ER -