Hand Washing Study in Health Care Workers of a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Iran

Ali Majidpour; Mohamad Hussein Shari’at

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Hand Washing Study in Health Care Workers of a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Iran

Ali Majidpour, Mohamad Hussein Shari’at

Published in European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 2, Issue 1)

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Hospital acquired infections are a worldwide problem and cross contamination transmission causes 40% of them while many of these infections are transmitted by healthcare workers. This study was designed to survey the prevalence of hand washing in health care workers (HCWs) of Rasoul Akram hospital, a tertiary level teaching hospital of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS). This descriptive cross-sectional study was done on 350 healthcare workers, such as medical doctors, nurses, nurse' aide and other HCWs of the hospital. Questionnaire of hand washing made by WHO was used to collect data, and SPSS18 was used to data analysis. P value less than 0.05 was assumed significant. Oral consent was taken from participants before filling the questionnaire. Forty one percent were male, and average age of participants was 32.3 year (SD = 6.8). Sixty five percent of the participants were routinely washing their hands. One hundred and twenty seven cases had been participated in hand washing workshop and 82.5% of them used hand washing routinely which was significantly more than nonparticipating (p<0.001). Almost 48% of males and 76.8% of females did hand washing, which indicates a significant difference between males and females. Nurses had highest rate of hand washing(76.1%) and physicians had lowest(47.9%) and this was significant(p<0.001). Sixty three percent of HCWs of internal medicine division , 50.8% of surgical ward, 69.5% of Emergency department, 87.5% of pediatric diseases section and 78.1% of gynecology section were doing routine hand washing.

Published in	European Journal of Preventive Medicine (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejpm.20140201.13
Page(s)	16-19
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Hand Hygiene, Hand Washing, Hospital Acquired Infection, HAI, HCW

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Ali Majidpour

Infectious Diseases Department of Rasoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohamad Hussein Shari’at

Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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