Abstract
BackgroundHealth care associated infections are more predominant in developing countries where Hand hygiene compliance is associated with so many factors. However, these factors have not been studied so far in the study area. This study sought to determine Hand hygiene compliance and associated factors among health care providers.MethodsInstitution based cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May, 2013 in Gondar University Hospital. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 405 health care providers. Standardized questionnaire and world health organization observational checklist was used to collect the data. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model was used to summarize the result.ResultsA total of 405 study participants were interviewed and observed with a response rate of 96.4%. Good Hand hygiene compliance of healthcare providers was found to be 16.5%. Having knowledge about hand hygiene compliance, (AOR = 3.80, 95% CI 1.60, 8.97), getting training (AOR = 2.60, 95% Cl 1.21, 5.62), the presence of individual towel/tissue paper (AOR = 1.91, 95% CI 1.03, 3.56) presence of alcohol based hand rub for Hand hygiene compliance (AOR = 6.58, 95% CI 2.67, 16.22) and knew the presence of infection prevention committees (AOR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.23, 5.37) were significantly associated with hand hygiene compliance.ConclusionsHand hygiene compliance among health care providers in Gondar University Hospital was found to be low. It is better to give training on Hand hygiene compliance and provide Alcohol based hand rub and individual towel or tissue paper for hand hygiene compliance.
Highlights
Health care associated infections are more predominant in developing countries where Hand hygiene compliance is associated with so many factors
During patient care unless there is recommended hand hygiene compliance of health care providers kept, hands will be contaminated with microorganism [4]
It is estimated that annually about hundreds of millions of patients have suffered from health care associated infections (HCAIs) worldwide
Summary
Health care associated infections are more predominant in developing countries where Hand hygiene compliance is associated with so many factors. This study sought to determine Hand hygiene compliance and associated factors among health care providers. During patient care unless there is recommended hand hygiene compliance of health care providers kept, hands will be contaminated with microorganism [4]. The majority happened due to health care providers hands which will cause prolonged hospital stay, high amount of economical cost of patients, unnecessary laboratory investigation, high cost of drugs, and result to serious morbidity and mortality [5]. Hand hygiene compliance is the way of minimizing the transmitting micro organism which may be multi drug resistant for those patients who have been infected and admitted in the hospital due to their cause and has got other infection by contaminated health care provider’s hands [7]
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