Students' Hand Hygiene Beliefs, Practices and Skills

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Complications of Medical and Surgical Care (Y62-Y84)
• Interventions: Other: Training with video; Other: Training with paint

• Registration Number: NCT06403956
• Lead Sponsor: Çankırı Karatekin University

Brief Summary

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to determine the effect of hand hygiene training given to home patient care students with different methods on their hand hygiene beliefs, practices and skills. This study was a randomized controlled trial. The population of the study consisted of 123 students. After the removals, the study was completed with 75 students in the video, paint and control groups. In the intervention of the study, lecture, discussion, question and answer, demonstration, coloring and video methods were used.

Detailed Description

Hand hygiene is the most important strategy to prevent the transmission of microorganisms between patients, healthcare personnel and the healthcare environment. This study was conducted to determine the effect of hand hygiene training given to home patient care students with different methods on their hand hygiene beliefs, practices and skills. This study was a randomized controlled trial. The population of the study consisted of 123 students. After the removals, the study was completed with 75 students in the video (n=25), paint (n=25) and control (n=25) groups. In the intervention of the study, lecture, discussion, question and answer, demonstration, coloring and video methods were used.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-01-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-02-15
• Study Completion: 2024-04-15
• Study First Submitted: 2024-04-25
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-03
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-08
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

• No previous training in a health field,
• First time students taking the Care Principles and Practices Lecture
• Students who agreed to participate in the study

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Exclusion Criteria

• Previous education in one of the health fields,
• Repeatedly taking the Care Principles and Practices Lecture
• Students who refused to participate in the study

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
video group	Training with video	The population of the study consisted of 123 students who were first-year students in the Home Patient Care Program. Video group (n=29)
Paint group	Training with paint	The population of the study consisted of 123 students who were first-year students in the Home Patient Care Program. Paint group (n=29)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hand Hygiene Belief Scale and Hand Hygiene Practice Inventory	1 year	It was developed by Thea F. Van De Mortel (2009). The Turkish validity and reliability of the Hand Hygiene Belief Scale and Hand Hygiene Practice Inventory were conducted by Karadağ et al. The Hand Hygiene Belief Scale and Hand Hygiene Practice Inventory were used to evaluate students' hand hygiene beliefs and practices. The Hand Hygiene Belief Scale is scored as "1=strongly disagree, 2=disagree, 3=not sure, 4=agree, 5=strongly agree" and consists of 22 items in total; the Hand Hygiene Practice Inventory is scored as "1=never, 2=sometimes, 3=often, 4=most of the time, 5=always" and consists of 14 items. Items 5,8,16,17,18,19,20 are evaluated in reverse (5=strongly disagree, 4=disagree, 3=not sure, 2=agree, 1=strongly agree).
Hand Washing Skills Checklist	1 year	The checklist prepared by the researchers in line with the WHO (World Health Organization) guidelines consists of 20 steps to evaluate the hand washing skills of the students. For the developed checklist, expert opinion was obtained from 5 Fundamentals of Nursing experts. Among the steps in the checklist, 0 points were given to the steps that were not applied, 0.5 points to the missing applied steps, and 1 point to the correctly applied steps. The highest score that students can get from the hand washing skill checklist is 20 points.
The Descriptive Characteristics and Hand Hygiene Information Form	1 year	It was developed by the researchers and includes seven questions including age, gender, family type, economic status, previous hand hygiene training, need for hand hygiene training, and hand washing frequency.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Çankırı Karatekin University; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Turkey