Helping Hands: Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses

Handwashing Clinical Trial

Official title:

HELPING HANDS: a Comparison of Short- and Long Term Effects of Alternative Strategies for Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00548015
• Other study ID #: RG000279
• Secondary ID: ZonMw 945-17-101
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 22, 2007
• Last updated: September 30, 2009
• Start date: March 2008
• Est. completion date: November 2009

Study information

• Verified date: October 2007
• Source: Radboud University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO)
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Hand hygiene prescriptions are the most important measure in the prevention of hospital acquired infections. Yet compliance rates are generally below 50% of all opportunities for hand hygiene adherence. This study will test the short- and long term effects of two strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 900
• Est. completion date: November 2009
• Est. primary completion date: November 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hand hygiene opportunities at the point of patient care

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hand hygiene opportunities not concerning patient care like personal hygiene

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Handwashing

Intervention

Behavioral:
• state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy
state-of-the art: education, reminders, performance feedback, extented:state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Netherlands	Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis	Nijmegen
Netherlands	Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, PObox 9101	Nijmegen
Netherlands	Elisabeth Ziekenhuis	Tilburg

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Radboud University	ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Percentage of adherence of opportunities for hand hygiene		march 2008, october 2008, may 2009, november 2009	Yes
Secondary	Team climate, Cost effectiveness		december 2008, june 2009	No