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Hand Hygiene : Impact of Educational Training and Awareness Programme

Hand Hygiene is a cost-effective method in preventing infection transmission. Improper Hand Hygiene by healthcare workers (HCWs) is responsible for about 40% of nosocomial infections resulting in prolonged illnesses, hospital stays, long-term disability and unexpected high costs on patients and their families, and also lead to a massive additional financial burden on the health-care system. Hand Hygiene practices have been found to be faulty in most healthcare settings. We conducted a cross sectional, questionnaire and observation based study to evaluate the knowledge and compliance of Hand Hygiene among Health care professionals in one of the health care facilities in Gujarat. Among which 100 Health care professionals were observed working in Internal Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology (OBGYN), Neonatal health care care of the hospital. The rate of Hand Hygiene compliance before hand hygiene educational programme was 37.14, 65.51 and 36 % of Nurses/ Brothers, doctors & other Health care professionals respectively. That was increased to 38.65, 72.72 and 45.28 % in healthcare professionals (Nurses/ Brothers, doctors and others respectively) after a 1 week of teaching programme, which was subsequently decreased at the end of 2 weeks and one month. So the training and awareness programme should be promoted and its continuity is the key to success.