2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Basic study on hand contamination of patients with contractured hands in a long-term care health facility

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23593124
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Fundamental nursing
Research Institution	University of Toyama
Principal Investigator	YOSHII Miho 富山大学, 大学院医学薬学研究部(医学), 准教授 (30334733)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	手指汚染
Research Abstract	The objective is to clarify the current hand contamination situation of residents in a long-term Care Health Facility resident, which ranks somewhere between hospital-care and home-care. The result of the isolation culture identified that the number of sample was 143, gram-positive bacteria was 73%, and gram-negative bacteria was 27%. As a result of identification, most of gram-positive bacteria were Staphylococcus Spp. A tendency turned out that contractured hands were more likely to be contaminated with germs than uncontractured hands, from which we assumed that uncotractured hands were less hygienic than contractured hands. The hand hygiene method varied according to the individual physical situation. Therefore I grasp ahand hygiene method in detail. It was thought that it was necessary to examine a care method.