Patient participation in compliance with hand hygiene by health professionals: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Shilas Kalléu
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Rossetto, Jéssica Regina, Valim, Marília Duarte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/epidemiologia/article/view/15983
• topic: educação em saúde; higiene das mãos; participação do paciente; estratégia multimodal.

Background and objectives: Healthcare-associated Infections are a global health concern. Although the best strategy for its prevention is hand hygiene (HH), there is still low compliance by health professionals in the execution of the correct technique. In order to improve compliance with HH, the World Health Organization (WHO) implemented the multimodal strategy, which emphasizes patient participation in health services, in order to encourage professionals to wash their hands. With this, we sought to verify the impact of the implementation of educational strategies with patient involvement and participation in compliance with hand hygiene by health professionals. Methods: An integrative literature review in the CINAHL, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus and WOS databases. Results: The present sample comprised eight international studies that empowered patient participation with intervention strategies on HH and studies in which patients provided feedback on compliance assessment, which reflected in greater compliance with HH by health professionals. Conclusion: Educational interventions with patient participation and involvement proved to be effective for health professionals to comply with HH, especially when all components of the multimodal strategy were adequately addressed.