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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Changes in knowledge and attitudes of hospital environmental services staff: the Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study |
Author: | Mitchell, B.G. White, N. Farrington, A. Allen, M. Page, K. Gardner, A. Halton, K. Riley, T.V. Gericke, C.A. Paterson, D.L. Graves, N. Hall, L. |
Citation: | American Journal of Infection Control, 2018; 46(9):980-985 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
ISSN: | 0196-6553 1527-3296 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Brett G. Mitchell, Nicole White, Alison Farrington, Michelle Allen, Katie Page ... Christian A. Gericke ... et al. |
Abstract: | BACKGROUND:The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study tested a multimodal cleaning intervention in Australian hospitals. This article reports findings from a pre/post questionnaire, embedded into the REACH study, that was administered prior to the implementation of the intervention and at the conclusion of the study. METHODS:A cross-sectional questionnaire, nested within a stepped-wedge trial, was administered. The REACH intervention was a cleaning bundle comprising 5 interdependent components. The questionnaire explored the knowledge, reported practice, attitudes, roles, and perceived organizational support of environmental services staff members in the hospitals participating in the REACH study. RESULTS:Environmental services staff members in 11 participating hospitals completed 616 pre- and 307 post-test questionnaires (n = 923). Increases in knowledge and practice were seen between the pre-and post-test questionnaires. Minimal changes were observed in attitudes regarding the role of cleaning and in perceived organizational support. CONCLUSION:To our knowledge, this is the first study to report changes in knowledge, attitudes, and perceived organizational support in environmental services staff members, in the context of a large multicenter clinical trial. In this underexplored group of hospital workers, findings suggest that environmental services staff members have a high level of knowledge related to cleaning practices and understand the importance of their role. |
Keywords: | Cross infection Environment Health services Hospitals Housekeeping Infection control Maintenance Translational research |
Rights: | © 2018 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by ElsevierInc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.02.003 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1076006 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.02.003 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Nursing publications |
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