Handwashing practice and the use of personal protective equipment among medical students after the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong
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Auteurs : Tze-Wai Wong ; Wilson Wai-San TamSource :
- American Journal of Infection Control [ 0196-6553 ] ; 2005.
Abstract
Hand hygiene is an important element of infection control. We conducted 2 surveys on hand hygiene practices and use of personal protective equipment among medical students during and after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to study its impact on their personal hygiene practice when they contacted patients.
Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted among medical students in their clinical training years (years 3-5) in a teaching hospital (at which the first and major SARS outbreak occurred) in March 2003 and August 2004, respectively.
Prior to the recognition of the SARS outbreak in March 2003, 35.2% of the students washed their hands before and 72.5% after they physically examined patients in the wards. None of the students wore masks during history taking and physical examination. In the 2004 survey, the corresponding proportions were 60.3% and 100%, respectively, and 86.1% and 93.8% of students wore masks during history taking and physical examination, respectively. Attitudes to handwashing and perception of infection risk were not significantly associated with handwashing practice, whereas peer behavior might be a significant influencing factor.
A significant improvement in compliance with hand hygiene practice was found after the SARS outbreak.
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>12</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>5</day><month>12</month><year>2005</year></pub-date><volume>33</volume><issue>10</issue><fpage>580</fpage><lpage>586</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2005 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2005</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.</copyright-holder><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><sec><title>Background</title><p>Hand hygiene is an important element of infection control. We conducted 2 surveys on hand hygiene practices and use of personal protective equipment among medical students during and after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to study its impact on their personal hygiene practice when they contacted patients.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>Two cross-sectional surveys were conducted among medical students in their clinical training years (years 3-5) in a teaching hospital (at which the first and major SARS outbreak occurred) in March 2003 and August 2004, respectively.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Prior to the recognition of the SARS outbreak in March 2003, 35.2% of the students washed their hands before and 72.5% after they physically examined patients in the wards. None of the students wore masks during history taking and physical examination. In the 2004 survey, the corresponding proportions were 60.3% and 100%, respectively, and 86.1% and 93.8% of students wore masks during history taking and physical examination, respectively. Attitudes to handwashing and perception of infection risk were not significantly associated with handwashing practice, whereas peer behavior might be a significant influencing factor.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>A significant improvement in compliance with hand hygiene practice was found after the SARS outbreak.</p></sec></abstract></article-meta><notes><p>Hong Kong</p></notes></front></pmc><affiliations><list></list><tree><noCountry><name sortKey="Tam, Wilson Wai San" sort="Tam, Wilson Wai San" uniqKey="Tam W" first="Wilson Wai-San" last="Tam">Wilson Wai-San Tam</name><name sortKey="Wong, Tze Wai" sort="Wong, Tze Wai" uniqKey="Wong T" first="Tze-Wai" last="Wong">Tze-Wai Wong</name></noCountry></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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