Hand hygiene performance and beliefs among public university employees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4226831 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maggie Stedman-Smith (Kent State University), Cathy Lz Dubois (Kent State University), Scott F Grey (Kent State University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1263-1274 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359105313510338 |
| PMID | 24265297 |
| OpenAlex | W2152627771 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
The workplace is an important location to access community members, and employers have a direct interest in employee well-being. A survey administered to a random sample of employees at a Midwestern US university tested the ability of a model informed by the theory of planned behavior to predict hand hygiene practices and beliefs using structural equation modeling. Questions demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability. Constructs predicted self-reported hand hygiene behaviors, and hand hygiene behaviors reduced the odds of reporting sickness from respiratory tract and gastrointestinal infections. The findings support multi-modal hand hygiene improvement interventions
Environmental health · Hygiene · Logistic regression · Odds · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Structural equation modeling · Food Safety and Hygiene · Infection Control in Healthcare · Medicine · Nursing · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Factor analysis in the development and refinement of clinical assessment instruments.
An Organizational Climate Intervention Associated With Increased Handwashing and Decreased Nosocomial Infections
Experimental Pretesting of Hand-Washing Interventions in a Natural Setting
Effect of Hand Hygiene on Infectious Disease Risk in the Community Setting
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |