Determinants of good adherence to hand hygiene among healthcare workers who have extensive exposure to hand hygiene campaigns(15)
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2007/ Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol |
To quantify the different behavioral components involved in the motivation of health professionals to carry out hand hygiene |
Cross-sectional |
Use of a validated questionnaire, designed according to the guidelines of social cognitive theories applied to behaviors related to health, especially the Theory of Planned Behavior |
Health Care Professionals' Perceptions and Knowledge of Infection Control Practices in a Community Hospital(16)
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2009/ The Health Care Manager |
To evaluate perceptions and knowledge of health professionals regarding infection control practices |
Exploratory, survey |
Use of the validated instrument Health Belief Model, a methodology that allowed to measure constructs of perceptions and clinical knowledge about infection control practices |
Behavioral determinants of hand hygiene compliance in intensive care units(17)
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2010/ American Journal of Critical Care |
To identify and describe predictors and determinants of noncompliance with hand hygiene prescriptions in nurses in an intensive care unit at a teaching hospital |
Survey |
Self-efficacy was assessed by applying a validated questionnaire based on the behavioral theoretical model by Albert Bandura |
Knowledge, perceptions, and practices of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission prevention among health care workers in acute-care settings(18)
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2014/ American Journal of Infection Control |
To evaluate knowledge, perceptions, and practices related to hand hygiene and the risk of contamination by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in health professionals (physicians, nurses, and others) |
Cross-sectional study carried out with professionals at a hospital in the USA |
Use of an instrument with self-reported measures of the knowledge of health professionals, as well as their attitudes, perceptions, practices, and behaviors about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The instrument was validated in the study. |
Intensive care physicians' and nurses' perception that hand hygiene prevents pathogen transmission: belief strength and associations with other cognitive factors(19)
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2015/ Journal of Health Psychology |
To compare the perception of physicians and nurses regarding the belief that hands participate in microbial transmission and that hygiene reduces the risk of transmission. A second objective was to test associations of this belief with other sociocognitive determinants |
Cross-sectional, survey study that compared the perception of physicians and nurses in an intensive care unit at a German teaching medical center |
The study was based on a questionnaire tested by the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, with items that followed health psychology and demography recommendations |
Assessing Healthcare Associated Infections and Hand Hygiene Perceptions amongst Healthcare Professionals(20)
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2015/ International Journal of Caring Sciences |
To evaluate the perception of health professionals (physicians and nurses) at a hospital in Saudi Arabia regarding hand hygiene |
Descriptive study, with a World Health Organization standardized questionnaire |
Use of the questionnaire "Perception Survey for Health-care Workers", standardized by the World Health Organization |