Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wałaszek, Marta
• Kołpa, Małgorzata
• Różańska, Anna
• Wolak, Zdzisław
• Bulanda, Małgorzata
• Wójkowska-Mach, Jadwiga

Titel

Practice of hand hygiene and use of protective gloves: Differences in the perception between patients and medical staff

Ist Teil von

• American journal of infection control, 2018-09, Vol.46 (9), p.1074-1076

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •HCWs demonstrated poor familiarity with the My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene.•The role of protective gloves in preventing HAI was overestimated by patients and HCWs.•The oldest patients and those with vocational education highly appreciated the use of gloves.•HCWs with lower seniority and students attached greater importance to the use of gloves.•Involving patients in creating a safe health care environment remains a huge challenge. This study investigated differences in perceptions of hand hygiene and protective glove use among patients and health care workers (HCWs) in Poland. We conducted a survey using an original questionnaire among 462 respondents, including 173 (37.4%) patients and 289 (62.6%) HCWs; HCWs demonstrated poor familiarity with the My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene. The role of protective gloves in preventing health care–associated infection was overestimated by both patients and HCWs.