Qualitative study on compliance and influencing factors of hand washing in hospital nursing assistants / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the compliance and the influencing factors of hand washing of hospital care workers, so as to propose an effective management strategy. Methods Using the qualitative study interview, care workers from 18 hospital were interviewed in depth and recorded on site. And the content of the interviews was used to analyze the compliance and influencing factors of hand washing of hospital care workers. Results In this study, the compliance of hand washing of hospital care workers was low, and the main factors affecting the compliance of hospital care workers were heavy workload, the hospital care workers' hands contamination, paying no enough attention to the problems, cultural differences between ethnic groups, and the measures of cost- saving in the clinical departments. Conclusions The reasons of low compliance of hand washing of hospital care workers were hospital management, hand washing facilities, personal reasons, and etc.Therefore, the hospital administrators should enhance the consciousness of hospital care workers to wash their hands, to standardize their hand-washing behaviors, in order to enhance hospital care workers'compliance, and to avoid nosocomial infections.