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Reference no: EM132470006

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Issue: This article, "Priming" Hand Hygiene Compliance in Clinical Environments, acknowledges the issue of acquired nosocomial infections due to poor hand hygiene compliance of health care workers and visitors. The basis of this study looks at the compliance rate of a control group, then applies two interventions separately to determine if it improves hand hygiene compliance among health care workers and visitors in a surgical intensive care unit. This was a randomized control trial.

Study: This study was a random control trial which included health care workers and visitors of a surgical intensive care unit (SICU). There was a random mix of these people and they were blind to the study. A control group of 120 people were observed first. The first intervention was implemented (a citrus smell - olfactory prime) and 160 people were observed in their hand hygiene compliance. Finally, the second intervention was implemented ( a visual prime) and 185 people were observed. Of these observations, only 5 observations were excluded due to incomplete data.

Results: The results of this randomized control trial proved that an olfactory prime using a clean, citrus smell increased the rate of hand hygiene compliance when compared to the control group. Likewise, when a photo of male eyes was posted above the hand sanitizer, hand washing compliance also increased compared to the control group. It did not increase more than the olfactory prime, however. Finally, having a picture of female eyes above the hand sanitizer did not show great improvement of hand hygiene compliance when compared to the control group. Also, females had better hand hygiene compliance than males overall and were more impacted by the interventions than males were.

Critique: This article had strong research behind it and the material was not tainted based on the fact that it was blind observation. The interventions were clear and concise. This article stated the fact that hand hygiene is essential to prevent the spread of nosocomial infections and to prevent patients from acquiring them, however it takes a different approach when looking at hand hygiene, not the spread of infection itself. This research measures hand hygiene compliance which affects the spread of nosocomial infection, but it does not directly measure how hand hygiene decreases nosocomial infections.

Reference no: EM132470006

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