NCT00548015

Helping Hands: Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses

HELPING HANDS: a Comparison of Short- and Long Term Effects of Alternative Strategies for Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 900 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Hand hygiene prescriptions are the most important measure in the prevention of hospital acquired infections. Yet compliance rates are generally below 50% of all opportunities for hand hygiene adherence. This study will test the short- and long term effects of two strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses

Conditions

• Handwashing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy	state-of-the art: education, reminders, performance feedback, extented:state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-11-01
• Completion: 2009-11-01
• First posted: 2007-10-23
• Last updated: 2009-10-01

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Netherlands