title: Hand hygiene performance and beliefs among public university employees.
abstract: The workplace is an important location to access community members, and employers have a direct interest in employee well-being. A survey administered to a random sample of employees at a Midwestern US university tested the ability of a model informed by the theory of planned behavior to predict hand hygiene practices and beliefs using structural equation modeling. Questions demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability. Constructs predicted self-reported hand hygiene behaviors, and hand hygiene behaviors reduced the odds of reporting sickness from respiratory tract and gastrointestinal infections. The findings support multi-modal hand hygiene improvement interventions.
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, USA mstedman@kent.edu.
authors.forename: Maggie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stedman-Smith
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, USA.
authors.forename: Cathy L Z
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: DuBois
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, USA.
authors.forename: Scott F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Grey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D063373:Hand Hygiene; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D016272:Occupational Health; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities
keywords: employees; hand hygiene; health promotion; infectious disease; theory of planned behavior