The Feedback Intervention Trial (FIT) - improving hand hygiene compliance in UK healthcare workers

Completed

• Conditions: Healthcare Associated Infection; Infections and Infestations; Infection, unspecified

• Registration Number: ISRCTN65246961
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-04-05
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

Acute care of the elderly (ACE) or general medical wards and intensive therapy units (ITUs) in acute NHS trust hospitals across England and Wales. In each hospital, one ITU and a maximum of three acute care of the elderly wards were recruited. Sites recruited by requests posted on the cleanyourhands campaign website and by contacting infection control teams directly. Sites were eligible if they still wished to be involved after three or four site visits to gain the support of senior infection control team and management, ward managers, senior nurses and consultants, could offer the ITU and two or three acute care of the elderly wards as the clinical settings for the trial and were implementing the cleanyourhands campaign.

Exclusion Criteria

Wards that do not meet the above inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hand hygiene compliance measured by covert direct observation by an observer blinded as to ward allocation or randomisation to the intervention. <br>Observation periods of one hour, every 6 weeks, using a previously tested Hand Hygiene Observation Tool (the HHOT).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Monthly soap and AHR procurement data (litres per bed day) were collected as a proxy measure of hand hygiene compliance for each of the study wards. <br>Data were collected either from hospital supplies departments or directly from NHS Supply Chain. <br><br>Data routinely collected by trusts for national mandatory reporting on healthcare associated infections (cases per 10,000 bed days) (Methicillin resistant-, and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias and Clostridium difficile infection. Data collected monthly for individual wards from hospital infection control teams).