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Does Gloved Medical Personnel Scratch Less Often?

Sponsor
Medical University Innsbruck (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT00425048
Collaborator
(none)
40
Enrollment
1
Location
11
Duration (Months)
3.6
Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Unconscious touching of a person's own head or neck (for example by scratching) is a frequently observed and completely normal physiological movement pattern in humans, which when done by medical personnel attending a patient poses a high risk of unconscious self-contamination, even of an already disinfected hand, and of subsequent contamination of the patient. However, as compared to an ungloved hand, a gloved hand is felt to be "foreign," which could reduce the frequency of self-contact and thus the contamination rate.

Wearing protective gloves is highly recommended in medical practice. The purpose of this study is to explore how wearing, or not wearing, protective gloves affects

  • the frequency of unconscious self-contact

  • contamination of the gloved/ungloved hand

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Procedure: wearing gloves

Study Design

Study Type:
Observational
Anticipated Enrollment :
40 participants
Time Perspective:
Prospective
Study Start Date :
Jan 1, 2007
Actual Study Completion Date :
Dec 1, 2007

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

    Eligibility Criteria

    Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study:
    18 Years to 30 Years
    Sexes Eligible for Study:
    All
    Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
    Yes
    Inclusion Criteria:
    • Medical students working in a simulated OR environment

    Contacts and Locations

    Locations

    Site City State Country Postal Code
    1 University Hospital Innsbruck Austria 6020

    Sponsors and Collaborators

    • Medical University Innsbruck

    Investigators

    • Principal Investigator: Arnulf Benzer, MD, MUI Innsbruck

    Study Documents (Full-Text)

    None provided.

    More Information

    Publications

    None provided.
    Responsible Party:
    , ,
    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
    NCT00425048
    Other Study ID Numbers:
    • A_B_19_01_2007
    First Posted:
    Jan 22, 2007
    Last Update Posted:
    Feb 10, 2009
    Last Verified:
    Feb 1, 2009

    Study Results

    No Results Posted as of Feb 10, 2009