Hand hygiene compliance and influencing factors among health care workers / 中国感染控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate compliance and influencing factors of hand hygiene (HH)among health care workers(HCWs).Methods From November 2014 to February 2015,implementation of HH among HCWs in 15 clinical departments in a hospital was investigated through questionnaires,the effect of HH purpose on HH behav-ior of HCWs was analyzed with multivariate logistic regression method.Results A total of 364 HCWs were investi-gated,245 (67.31% )of whom implemented HH well. Univariate analysis revealed that implementation of HH a-mong HCWs of different occupations,education levels,and HH purpose were all significantly different (all P<0. 05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that HH purpose as well as HH compliance were both signifi-cantly different (P= 0.042). Compared with HH purpose of self-protection among HCWs,HCWs with HH pur-pose of cross-infection prevention had better HH behavior (OR,2.17[95% CI,1.29-3.65]).The top five objective factors influencing HCWs'HH implementation were as followslack of warm water in winter (70.73% ),heavy workload,had no time (61 .38% ),skin irritation caused by disinfectant or hand sanitizer (54.88% ),without hand dryer (47.56% ),and use disposable gloves (45.12% ).Conclusion On the basis of improving HH facilities,chan-ging HCWs'awareness of HH only for self-protection may be an another way to improve HH compliance among HCWs.