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Table 2 Healthcare workers' (HCW) and parents' perceptions of the impact of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and of the importance of hand hygiene

From: Healthcare workers' and parents' perceptions of measures for improving adherence to hand-hygiene

Healthcare Workers

Parents

 

No

% (95%CI)

 

No

% (95%CI)

Impact of HAIs on patient outcome (high/very high)

114/132

86.4 (79.7-91.4)

Risk of acquiring an HAI (high/very high)

159/234

67.9 (61.8-73.7)

Hand hygiene effectiveness in preventing HAIs (high/very high)

135/138

97.8 (94.2-99.4)

Hand-hygiene effectiveness in preventing HAIs (high/very high)

209/232

90.1 (85.7-93.5)

Importance in the ward of hand hygiene with respect to all patient safety issues (high/very high)

136/138

98.5 (95.3-99.8)

Importance of hand hygiene for healthcare safety (high/very high)

230/235

97.9 (95.3-99.2)

Importance that the head of the ward places on the fact that HCWs perform optimal hand hygiene (high/very high)

94/135

69.6 (61.5-76.9)

Importance that the head of the ward places on the fact that parents perform optimal hand hygiene (high/very high)

138/226

61.1 (54.6-67.3)

Effort required to perform good hand hygiene when caring for patients (high/very high)

82/137

59.8 (51.5-67.8)

Effort required to perform good hand hygiene (high/very high)

154/233

66.1 (59.8-72.0)