The Reasons behind Disregard for Hand Hygiene from the Perspectives of Hashtrood Imam Hussein Hospital Working Staff

Emerging infections from caring services are regarded as one common reason behind mortalities among hospitalized patients. The most effective and simplest way to prevent hospital infections is to follow hand hygiene rules. Despite the importance of hand hygiene in the preventing from infections, still there is a low level of attention to the subject matter. The present study tries to investigate the reasons behind disregard for hand hygiene among working staff of Imam Hussein Hospital in Hashtrood, East Azerbaijan, Iran.
Material and In the present descriptive study, 71 working staff of Hashtrood Imam Hussein hospital was scrutinized in 2017. Data were gathered using a questionnaire made by Arshadi et al in 2014. After data collection, they were analyzed by Pearson, independent t-test and variance analysis tests and the Mean, SD, frequency and percentage were obtained.
By studying the Mean score for each item it was revealed that the most important barriers for hand hygiene are respectively: lack of belief in the importance of hand hygiene, attitude toward the role of hand in infection control, skin allergy caused by disinfectants, lack of high quality disinfectants, and lack of hand hygiene tools. There was no meaningful relationship between demographics and total score.
As results suggest, it seems that an integration of mentioned items such as having a positive attitude towards hand hygiene among working staff, presence of high quality disinfectants and providing hand hygiene tools are necessary to prevent and control infections in hospitals.