Helping Hands: Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses

Sponsor

Radboud University Medical Center (Other)

Overall Status

Unknown status

CT.gov ID

NCT00548015

Collaborator

ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (Other)

900

Enrollment

Locations

Arms

Duration (Months)

300

Patients Per Site

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief 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

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Handwashing	Behavioral: state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

900 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Prevention

Official Title:

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

Study Start Date :

Mar 1, 2008

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Nov 1, 2009

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Nov 1, 2009

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: State of the Art strategy education, reminders, performance feedback,	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
Experimental: extended strategy state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting	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

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Active Comparator: State of the Art strategy

education, reminders, performance feedback,

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

Experimental: extended strategy

state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting

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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Percentage of adherence of opportunities for hand hygiene [march 2008, october 2008, may 2009, november 2009]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Team climate, Cost effectiveness [december 2008, june 2009]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

N/A and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

Hand hygiene opportunities at the point of patient care

Exclusion Criteria:

Hand hygiene opportunities not concerning patient care like personal hygiene

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	Country	Postal Code
1	Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis	Nijmegen	Netherlands	6500 GS
2	Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, PObox 9101	Nijmegen	Netherlands	6500 HB
3	Elisabeth Ziekenhuis	Tilburg	Netherlands	5000 LC

Sponsors and Collaborators

Radboud University Medical Center
ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

Investigators

Study Chair: Theo van Achterberg, PhD RN, Centre for Quality of Care Research

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

, ,

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT00548015

Other Study ID Numbers:

RG000279
ZonMw 945-17-101

First Posted:

Oct 23, 2007

Last Update Posted:

Oct 1, 2009

Last Verified:

Oct 1, 2007

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 1, 2009