An investigation into hand decontamination

ISRCTN	ISRCTN99277634
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN99277634
Secondary identifying numbers	N0514150910

Submission date: 30/09/2005
Registration date: 30/09/2005
Last edited: 07/03/2017

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Infections and Infestations

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Ms Sue Roberts
Scientific

Pathology Department
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital
St Peter's Road
Margate
CT9 4AN
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)1843 225544 ex 62305
Email	Sue.roberts@ekht.nhs.uk

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Hospital
Study type	Prevention
Scientific title	An investigation into hand decontamination
Study objectives	The aim of this study is to assess the effect of two interventions to promote the use of alcohol hand rub as the routine method for hand hygiene rather than hand washing and to explore reasons for non-compliance through the use of a questionnaire based survey.
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Hand decontamination
Intervention	The study will involve clinical hospital staff and run concurrently on four surgical wards: an elective orthopaedic ward, an elderly trauma/orthopaedic ward, a male general surgical ward and a female general surgical ward. Surgical wards were chosen as they have been identified as high risk areas for infection in view of the infection susceptibility of patients with wounds and invasive devices, urinary catheters and intravenous infusions. Each ward would act as its own control and be randomly assigned to an intervention as follows: 1. Ward one intervention - a comprehensive education package on the use of the existing alcohol hand rub. 2. Ward two intervention - a comprehensive education package as above and the provision of personal alcohol hand rub dispensers (same product) (the normal available alcohol hand rub at the end of the bed, wall mounted etc will remain). 3. Ward three intervention - the provision of personal alcohol hand rub dispensers. 4. Ward four - no intervention. Alcohol hand rub (all presentations) will be monitored throughout the period study (12233 ks) to assess amount used by weighing at set intervals. A wash out period will be allowed at the beginning of the study to allow staff to get used to the fact that alcohol hand rub is being routinely weighed. In addition, an anonymous questionnaire will be issued to all participants before and after the interventions, including the ward where there is no intervention. The first questionnaire will address the issues of the participants' perceived compliance/product knowledge of alcohol usage at baseline. The second questionnaire will be issued following the interventions, to assess again the same issues. However, the second questionnaire will contain additional questions concerning the experience of using a personal dispenser. The likert scale will be used. All healthcare workers likely to be working on the wards for the duration of the study will be invited to participate.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	To assess whether personal dispensers and/or education improve hand hygiene compliance by measuring alcohol hand rub usage and evaluating the pre- and post- intervention questionnaires.
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	09/08/2004
Completion date	15/11/2004

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	184 participants (in four surgical wards)
Key inclusion criteria	1. All healthcare workers likely to be working on the ward for the duration of the study will be invited to participate. This will include members of staff such as nurses, medical staff (consultant staff junior doctors) healthcare assistants, ancillary staff eg physiotherapists, occupational therapists. The medical staff participating in the study will either be working as part of the surgical team or the orthopaedic team on the relevant wards, they may also visit patients on other wards but this is likely to be roughly equal for each group participating. 2. Each potential participant will be identified by the ward managers and letter from the researcher inviting them to participate in the study.
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	09/08/2004
Date of final enrolment	15/11/2004

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Pathology Department

Margate
CT9 4AN
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Department of Health
Government

Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)20 7307 2622
Email	dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Website	http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en

Funders

Funder type

Government

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust (UK) NHS R&D Support Funding

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Editorial Notes

07/03/2017: No publications found in PubMed, verifying study status with principal investigator