Watanabe Yusuke, Okugawa Asami, Soeda Hiroshi, Shimodaira Tomohide, Sato Satoko, Fujita Hiroaki, Kobayashi Takehito, Nakamura Itaru, Watanabe Hidehiro
Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Centre, Ibaraki, Japan.
Infect Prev Pract. 2025 Mar 5;7(2):100456. doi: 10.1016/j.infpip.2025.100456. eCollection 2025 Jun.
The effectiveness of patient participation in hand hygiene (HH) programmes in Japan is unclear. This study examines the effect of a patient empowerment HH programme at a Japanese hospital. Two periods were analysed: January 2020 to November 2020 as the baseline, and December 2020 to April 2021 as the intervention period. The intervention involved inpatients observing the HH practices of healthcare workers. The average number of HH events per patient-day increased from 23.4 at baseline to 37.3 during the intervention. HH events were positively correlated with the number of patient observations. Patient empowerment programmes may therefore help to improve HH.
患者参与日本手部卫生(HH)计划的有效性尚不清楚。本研究考察了日本一家医院实施的患者赋权手部卫生计划的效果。分析了两个时间段:2020年1月至2020年11月为基线期,2020年12月至2021年4月为干预期。干预措施包括让住院患者观察医护人员的手部卫生操作。每位患者每天手部卫生操作的平均次数从基线期的23.4次增加到干预期的37.3次。手部卫生操作次数与患者观察次数呈正相关。因此,患者赋权计划可能有助于改善手部卫生状况。