Hand hygiene behavior in a tertiary university hospital: differences between surgical and nonsurgical departments

Safety in Health

Table 3 Barriers not to clean their hands (%), total cohort compared to nonsurgical and surgical departments (%)

Reason	Baseline	Follow up	p
1) Not enough time	12.40	13.61	ns
nonsurgical	11.61	9.58	ns
surgical	13.03	15.72	ns
2) HH-dispenser was missing	5.38	5.15	ns
nonsurgical	5.28	3.59	ns
surgical	5.46	5.97	ns
3) HH-dispenser was not on the right place	7.95	5.77	ns
nonsurgical	6.86	4.79	ns
surgical	8.82	6.29	ns
4) HH is irritating the skin	2.22	2.27	ns
nonsurgical	2.37	3.59	ns
surgical	2.10	1.57	ns
5) Forgotten	15.32	16.08	ns
nonsurgical	15.30	16.77	ns
surgical	15.34	15.72	ns
6) I use hand gloves	27.37	17.94	<0.001
nonsurgical	27.70	20.36	ns
surgical	27.10	16.67	0.001
7) There is no reason for HH/no risk	23.39	21.24	ns
nonsurgical	24.54	23.95	ns
surgical	22.48	19.81	ns
8) Emergency case	34.04	25.57	0.002
nonsurgical	37.20	29.94	ns
surgical	31.51	23.27	0.014

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