Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs): A Technology-based Self-management Intervention to Improve Patient Hand Hygiene and Reduce Hand Contamination Among Older Adults
Case Western Reserve University
Summary
This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.
Description
The investigators long-term goal to establish sustainable, patient-centered interventions at the patient level to engage patients in safety and prevention by offsetting barriers such as physical and sensory limitations that prohibit older adults from actively cleaning their hands independently. Unfortunately, older adults are at highest risk for infections and yet while hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection, mechanisms for older adults to minimize personal risk for infections is often overlooked. Many contamination elements exist in hospital settings…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 65+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: 1. \> 65 years of age, 2. Admitted to a medical-surgical unit, 3. Expected to be hospitalized for more than 24 hours, 4. Written informed consent within 24-48 hours of admission, and 5. Speak and read English 6. Physical capacity to use the CHAMPs system 7. Sufficient hearing and seeing capacity to indicate understanding and use of the intervention. Exclusion Criteria 1. terminal illness that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs 2. behavior disorder 3. violent behavior 4. physical or cognitive impairments that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs 5. limiting understanding and us…
Interventions
- BehavioralClean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients
Use of a patient-smart hand sanitation dispenser that provides reminders that are non-beeping reminders.
Locations (2)
- Lous Stokes Cleveland VA Medical CenterCleveland, Ohio
- MetroHealth Medical CenterCleveland, Ohio