Hand hygiene knowledge, perception and practice of healthcare workers in a Turkish university hospital intensive care unit

Sili U., Ay P., Bilgin H., Hidiroğlu S., Korten V.

JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, cilt.13, sa.8, ss.744-749, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 8
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3855/jidc.10916
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.744-749
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hand hygiene compliance, quantitative study, healthcare-associated infections, intensive care unit
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Introduction: While improvement of hand hygiene (HH) compliance is considered as the best approach to reduce healthcare-associated infections, the instructional interventions in HH among healthcare workers of intensive care unit (ICU) of our hospital was not successful enough. The following study was conducted to evaluate HH knowledge, perception, practice and effectiveness of the trainings among healthcare workers of ICU in our hospital.