Open Access“Priming” hand hygiene compliance in clinical environments.
Author(s) -
Dominic King,
Ivo Vlaev,
Ruth EverettThomas,
Maureen Fitzpatrick,
Ara Darzi,
David J. Birnbach
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/hea0000239
Subject(s) - hygiene , medicine , psychological intervention , priming (agriculture) , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , nursing , surgery , botany , germination , pathology , biology
Effective hand hygiene is the single most important procedure in preventing hospital-acquired infections. Traditional information/education-based interventions have shown only modest benefits on compliance. This study set out to investigate whether priming via olfactory and visual cues influences hand hygiene compliance.
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