Question

Please give objectives and a brief background about the research topic:

Research Topic: the effectiveness of handhygiene among health professionals on preventing infection in (selected hospital)

Answer 1

Understand the importance of hand hygiene in infection prevention.Be aware of different methods for performing hand hygiene.Be able to describe the ideal facilities required for hand hygiene.Understand the factors that impact on hand hygiene compliance.Know how to measure hand hygiene compliance.Be familiar with interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance rates.

The present guidelines recommend a multifaceted system and behaviour change intervention as the most reliable method to improve hand hygiene in health care. To accompany the guidelines and aid implementation at a local level, a comprehensive Guide to Implementation and a suite of facilitative tools have been developed. This part is concerned with how to develop a successful improvement programme at a national level that will aid in implementation at a local level. It reviews the literature on national health improvement programmes and campaigns and explores the applicability of such an approach in relation to hand hygiene. Behaviour change interventions in the health-care context are increasingly utilizing the popular media within an integrated campaign framework and this has been shown to have numerous benefits, not least in terms of cost–effectiveness. The background, risks, and benefits of approaches to hand hygiene improvement are described within the context of general public health or health improvement campaigning. The developments of national hand hygiene improvement campaigns in the time period since the launch of the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge, and the publication of the 2006 Advanced Draft of the guidelines, and concludes by presenting a blueprint for national campaigns. Hand hygiene is the fundamental and leading measure to prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistance and to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Several strategies are recommended to increase the compliance for hand hygiene practice; however, health-care worker (HCW) compliance with optimal practices remains low in most settings.It is important to carry out hand hygiene training programmes regularly to achieve increased compliance with hand hygiene practices. This study also emphasises that an objective technique of demonstration has a greater effect in changing professional's attitude towards hand hygiene.