Conference abstract
Hand hygiene compliance among health professionals at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre - Tanzania, a hospital based study
Pan African Medical Journal - Conference Proceedings. 2024:21(68).29
Apr 2024.
doi: 10.11604/pamj-cp.2024.21.68.2399
Archived on: 29 Apr 2024
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Keywords: Hand hygiene compliance, health professionals, hospital
Oral presentation
Hand hygiene compliance among health professionals at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre - Tanzania, a hospital based study
Alex P. Alexander1,2,&, Gloria Sakwari2, Witness John2
1Department of Health, Nutrition and Social Welfare Services, Same District Council, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 2Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Muhimbili, Tanzania
&Corresponding author
Introduction: contaminated hands of Health Professionals has a big role in the transmission of Hospital Acquired infections (HAIs). Identifying existing gap of hand hygiene compliance among health professionals is a key first step in developing a successful IPC. In 2005, WHO launched the global patient safety challenge: “clean care is safer care campaign” and later on in 2009, introduced a cost-effective measure “my 5 moments for hand hygiene”. However, compliance to hand hygiene remains low globally and worse in developing countries.
Methods: hospital based, descriptive cross-sectional study with quantitative approach conducted among 427 health professionals at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (Kcmc)-Tanzania. Data collected using WHO questionnaires and checklist. Epi info version was used to enter data, then was exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis.
Results: overall compliance of the hand hygiene was 45.2%, about 68.4% of participants spent the time recommended for the hand hygiene as per WHO guideline while only 45.2% washed their hands before and after wearing gloves despite of availability of functional hand hygiene facilities by 100%. There is significant association between poor hand hygiene compliance and misconception that wearing gloves removes the needs for hand by OR of 1.24 & AOR of 1.7.
Conclusion: despite effort put globally and National wise (Mikono salama campaign in Tanzania) the compliance of the hand hygiene among the health professionals is still low. A misconception that wearing gloves removes the needs for hand hygiene should be addressed through training and supervision so as to increase the hand hygiene compliance.
Hand hygiene compliance among health professionals at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre - Tanzania, a hospital based study
Alex P. Alexander1,2,&, Gloria Sakwari2, Witness John2
1Department of Health, Nutrition and Social Welfare Services, Same District Council, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 2Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Muhimbili, Tanzania
&Corresponding author
Introduction: contaminated hands of Health Professionals has a big role in the transmission of Hospital Acquired infections (HAIs). Identifying existing gap of hand hygiene compliance among health professionals is a key first step in developing a successful IPC. In 2005, WHO launched the global patient safety challenge: “clean care is safer care campaign” and later on in 2009, introduced a cost-effective measure “my 5 moments for hand hygiene”. However, compliance to hand hygiene remains low globally and worse in developing countries.
Methods: hospital based, descriptive cross-sectional study with quantitative approach conducted among 427 health professionals at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (Kcmc)-Tanzania. Data collected using WHO questionnaires and checklist. Epi info version was used to enter data, then was exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis.
Results: overall compliance of the hand hygiene was 45.2%, about 68.4% of participants spent the time recommended for the hand hygiene as per WHO guideline while only 45.2% washed their hands before and after wearing gloves despite of availability of functional hand hygiene facilities by 100%. There is significant association between poor hand hygiene compliance and misconception that wearing gloves removes the needs for hand by OR of 1.24 & AOR of 1.7.
Conclusion: despite effort put globally and National wise (Mikono salama campaign in Tanzania) the compliance of the hand hygiene among the health professionals is still low. A misconception that wearing gloves removes the needs for hand hygiene should be addressed through training and supervision so as to increase the hand hygiene compliance.
