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Hand hygiene practices among care providers of leukemia children

: An analytical study was carried out at the Hematology-Oncology units of Advanced Pediatric Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh to find out the hand hygiene practices of care providers of children admitted with leukemia. The care providers comprised of nurses, physicians and parents of children acting as attendants to them. Purposive quota sampling was adopted and a total of 60 care providers were chosen as sample. The selected subjects were studied for their hand hygiene practices in relation to their compliance to hand hygiene guidelines. This was followed by interviewing them about their preferences about the practices. The fingertips sample of care providers were collected in Agar plates before and after hand hygiene practices during routine care to study the decontamination efficacy of the hand hygiene. The result of the study revealed that compliance among all categories of care providers was between 21 to 40.6 per cent. The preference towards hand hygiene practices also varied considerably among the care providers. In relation to decontamination efficacy, hand rubbing with Sterilium and hand scrubbing with Betadine was found to be superior to hand washing practices.