Hand Hygiene education of Greek medical and nursing students: a cross-sectional study
| Autor: | Lamprini Bounou, Philippos Orfanos, Vasiliki Spyrou, Konstantina-Ioanna Panagiotopoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Stamatia Katelani, Agapi-Iliana Skouloudaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Health Knowledge
Attitudes Practice Cross-sectional study Trainer Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject education hand hygiene knowledge medical students Nursing Compulsory education FOS: Health sciences Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hygiene Surveys and Questionnaires hand hygiene hand hygiene practices Health care Medicine and Health Sciences Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Curriculum General Nursing media_common nursing students hand hygiene compliance 030504 nursing Greece business.industry Risk of infection hand hygiene education General Medicine Cross-Sectional Studies Medical Education Students Nursing Guideline Adherence 0305 other medical science business Psychology Inclusion (education) |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/6ucy9 |
| Popis: | To investigate medical and nursing students' education on hand hygiene, their attitude on hand hygiene education and how this education influences their hand hygiene knowledge and practices.Hospital-acquired infections are associated with prolonged hospitalisation and mortality. The most effective measure for their control is healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance. Since medical and nursing students constitute the future healthcare workers, our study focuses on them.Cross-sectional study METHODS: This study was conducted during the academic year 2016-2017, using a modified World Health Organisation questionnaire. Our sample consisted of 132 medical and 111 nursing students from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. In data analysis, the Mann-Whitney and Fisher's exact tests were applied to compare differences in continuous variables and proportions in categorical variables, respectively. Knowledge and practices overall scores were calculated per student group. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to assess the influence of potential confounders on these scores.We found that 73.1% of medical and 98.2% of nursing students had received relevant education, which was reported as "only theoretical" by 77.4% of the former and as "hands-on and theoretical" by 88.1% of the latter group. Besides the risk of infection, knowledge acquired in lectures and trainer's behaviour were also considered very influential factors shaping hand hygiene attitude in both groups. Overall, medical students reported better hand hygiene practices than nursing ones (69.9% and 59.7%, respectively; p 0.001). The opposite finding was observed regarding their overall knowledge on hand hygiene (57.2% of medical versus 60.4% of nursing students, p = 0.04). The majority of students (86.6% of all participants; p 0.001) supported the inclusion of compulsory hand hygiene education in their curriculum. Compulsory education and seminars were assessed as the most effective measures to increase hand hygiene compliance (71.4% of all students).In our study, medical students scored better in practices questions than nursing students; this did not apply for the knowledge score. The majority of students supported the inclusion of compulsory education on hand hygiene principles in their Departments' curricula, highlighting compulsory education and seminars as the most effective measures to increase compliance with hand hygiene. |
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