Reducing Visitors- and Personnel-associated Infection Risk on Perinatal Care Station

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hygiene
• Interventions: Behavioral: voice prompts; Behavioral: agitation

• Registration Number: NCT03032887
• Lead Sponsor: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Brief Summary

The rate of infectious diseases (amnioninfection syndrome (AIS), fetal inflammatory response syndrome (FIRS), early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS)) in perinatal care / neonatology is steadily rising in Germany. The hands of the staff and visitors are the most important transmission vehicle of pathogens. Hence hand hygiene is one of the most important measures for the prevention of hospital infections. The different measures of hand hygiene serve to protect against the spread of contamination of the skin with obligate or potentially pathogenic pathogens. Since the use of antibiotics is generally only possible to a limited extent (especially in pregnant women and neonates in perinatal care centers) the primary prophylactic measures are of great importance.

While the importance of hand disinfection in the staff has been undisputed, there is no data on the rate of hand disinfection for visitors of perinatal care centers. Visitor at these stations are common non-compliant persons (especially children!). On the other hand, pregnant women and young mothers and newborn babies are "exposed" to a large number of visitors compared to other stations.

The investigators examine whether special measures (such as voice prompts) have a positive effect on the rate of performed hand disinfections or consecutively on the infection rate.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-03
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-23
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-26
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Study Completion: 2019-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-16
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Minimum age: 7 years
• informed consent
• Member of target group: Visitor or staff

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Exclusion Criteria

• Insufficient language skills

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
voice prompts	voice prompts	Agitation (education, reminders and optimising materials) plus voice prompts
voice prompts	agitation	Agitation (education, reminders and optimising materials) plus voice prompts
no voice prompts	agitation	only Agitation (education, reminders and optimising materials); no voice prompts

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Total consumption of disinfectants per visitor	9 months	Total consumption of disinfectants per visitor (electronically counted)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Infection rate of typical maternal, fetal and newborn infections	9 months	Infection rate of typical maternal, fetal and newborn infections
Prevalence of highly positive Impact tests (swab tests)	9 months	Prevalence of highly positive Impact tests (swab tests)
Total consumption of disinfectants (only children) per visitor	9 months	Total consumption of disinfectants (only children) per visitor

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Maternity Clinic/Perinatal Treatment Center, university hospital, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; 🇩🇪 Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany