The impact of wash text messages and environmental cues intervention on hand hygiene practice among healthcare workers in the greater Kampala metropolitan area, Uganda

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Completed

• Conditions: Compliance with hand hygiene among healthcare workers; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN98148144
• Lead Sponsor: ational Academy of Sciences

Brief Summary

2021 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33499864/ (added 29/11/2022) 2024 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39237982/ Formative qualitative study (added 06/09/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-11-23
• Study Completion: 2021-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 9 September 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 450

Inclusion Criteria

1. Full-time staff in the selected healthcare facility. This will be based on appointment letters wherever possible
2. Worked in the selected healthcare facility for at least 6 months prior to the study

Exclusion Criteria

1. All healthcare workers in maternal and children’s wards of selected healthcare, who will be on leave at the time of the baseline
2. All healthcare workers in maternal and children’s wards of selected healthcare, who will be so sick at the time of the baseline

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Proportion of used Hand hygiene (HH) opportunities (number of times HH is observed to be done at critical times out of the total number of observed HH opportunities. <br>Hand hygiene observations will be conducted during the baseline, midline and end-line surveys. The hand hygiene observations will be done in the mornings (8 am – 12 pm) and evenings (4 pm – 8 pm) since these are considered to be peak treatment hours (Fries, Segre et al. 2012). Within the targeted time, 15 hand hygiene opportunities will be observed for each of the selected HCWs (corresponding to 3 patients each with 5 hand hygiene opportunities), and the used and missed opportunities will be recorded. Observations will be conducted by experienced researchers (HCWs or environmental health officers) who will observe from the least obtrusive point within a radius of 10 meters of the patient wards.