2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Preventing Hand Dermatitis using barrier creams to improve hand hygiene adherence

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23660019
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Fundamental nursing
Research Institution	Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
Principal Investigator	TSUKAMOTO Yoko 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 教授 (20405674)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	手荒れ / 皮膚保護剤 / 手指衛生 / アドヒアランス
Research Abstract	Hand dermatitis is a significant problem among health care workers, especially who perform handhygiene frequently. In this study, the prevalence of hand dermatitis for health care workers and intervened as an educational program including providing skin barrier creams. As the result, health care workers hand dermatitis were prevented or improved. However, the incidence of healthcare associated infection rate was not significantly difference before and after interventional program.

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