Abstract
The Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases (SLJID) is an open access, peer-reviewed, biannual journal published by the Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology (SSM). The Journal considers articles from all professional disciplines involved in the field of infectious diseases. The Journal has been in publication since 2011, is included in the DOAJ since 2018 and is a member of COPE since 2021. The SLJID practices a double-blind peer review policy. From 2022, the SLJID publishes accepted manuscripts online immediately after copy-editing, enabling rapid dissemination of scientific knowledge. The published articles are subsequently compiled into two issues in April and October. The SLJID does not charge any article processing or publication fee.
Highlights
Effective hand hygiene can lower the prevalence of healthcare associated infections
There were a total of 289 study participants (196 medical students and 93 nursing students)
When assessed for hand hygiene practices, we found that only 5.53% had good practices, while 26.9% had moderate practices and the majority (67%) had poor hand hygiene practices
Summary
Effective hand hygiene can lower the prevalence of healthcare associated infections. Previous studies have shown that hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers is generally low.[3] Further increase in compliance is difficult to sustain, the World Health Organization (WHO) has compiled guidelines in this regard in order to reduce the prevalence of health care associated infections.[3] many studies done to assess the knowledge, attitudes, compliance and reasons for non-adherence to hand hygiene guidelines have found that compliance with hand hygiene protocols by health care workers (HCW) is poor[4,5,6] due to several constraints, including heavy work load, high number of clinical procedures and skin conditions of the HCW.[7,8] An alarming revelation was that compliance was found to be worst before highrisk procedures.[5,9]
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