Hand hygiene: The impact of incentive strategies on adherence among healthcare workers from a newborn intensive care unit.
We carried out a before-after non-controlled intervention study to assess the impact of different handwashing strategies in health care workers at a neonatal ICU in Goiânia - Goiás, Brazil. All ethical aspects were considered. Data was collected by using a check list in order to register hand hygiene opportunities during six months. Three strategies were elaborated together with the hospital team. We observed 1358 handwashing opportunities. Incentive strategies caused a small impact on the increase of adherence to hand hygiene during and after the implementation period. However, we noticed that this increase mainly occurred after the procedures were realized. On the whole, adherence levels were similar before (62.2%) and after (61.6%) the procedures. The study showed that health care workers were more worried about individual risks.
das Neves
Zilah Cândida Pereira
ZC
zilahcandida@yahoo.com.br
Tipple
Anaclara Ferreira Veiga
AF
Silva e Souza
Adenícia Custódia
AC
Pereira
Milca Severino
MS
Melo
Dulcelene de Sousa
Dde S
Ferreira
Lucimar Rodrigues
LR
D001938:Brazil; D003625:Data Collection; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006235:Hand Disinfection / Q000592:standards; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D013997:Time Factors