Kontakt 2021, 23(1):3-7 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2021.006

Adherence to hand hygiene in a hospital setting - a questionnaire survey focused on compliance with the use of glovesNursing - Original article

Petra Búřilová1,2,*, Michal Pospíšil1,2, Dana Dolanová1,2, Jana Kučerová2, Veronika Štrombachová2, Jan Mužík1,2, Lada Cetlová3, Andrea Pokorná1,2
1 Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Brno, Czech Republic
2 The Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
3 College of Polytechnics, Department of Health Care Studies, Jihlava, Czech Republic

Introduction: Hand hygiene is considered one of the most important and effective measures for infection prevention and control. It also plays a vital role in reducing healthcare-associated/acquired infections. The main goal is to assess hand hygiene compliance - with a special focus on using gloves when providing care in inpatient settings.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey on compliance with hand hygiene was conducted in health care facilities in the Czech Republic in 2018 before the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were from 80 inpatient health care providers in the Czech Republic. Responses were scored on a 6-level scale, from "always" (100 points) to "never" (0 points). Data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 22.

Results: The questionnaire was filled in by 2,049 health care personnel from 80 inpatient health care facilities in the Czech Republic. Respondents were further divided according to the medical specialty. Respondents worked in the field of internal medicine (43%), surgical fields (28%), psychiatry (14%), long-term care facilities (9%), and other non-classified fields (6%).

Conclusions: The presented study verified the good level of declared compliance with hygiene standards in inpatient healthcare providers in the Czech Republic. Significant differences were found between the observed hand hygiene measures established in the Czech Republic and international best practices based on a high scientific evidence level. An appropriate measure would be to establish national clinical best practices based on convincing scientific evidence at the national level.

Keywords: Compliance; Gloves; Hand hygiene; Healthcare-associated, acquired infections; Standard precautions

Received: December 14, 2020; Revised: February 1, 2021; Accepted: February 12, 2021; Prepublished online: February 16, 2021; Published: March 3, 2021  Show citation

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Búřilová P, Pospíšil M, Dolanová D, Kučerová J, Štrombachová V, Mužík J, et al.. Adherence to hand hygiene in a hospital setting - a questionnaire survey focused on compliance with the use of gloves. Kontakt. 2021;23(1):3-7. doi: 10.32725/kont.2021.006.
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