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Does Gloved Medical Personnel Scratch Less Often?

NCT00425048 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2009-02-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Unconscious touching of a person's own head or neck (for example by scratching) is a frequently observed and completely normal physiological movement pattern in humans, which when done by medical personnel attending a patient poses a high risk of unconscious self-contamination, even of an already disinfected hand, and of subsequent contamination of the patient. However, as compared to an ungloved hand, a gloved hand is felt to be "foreign," which could reduce the frequency of self-contact and thus the contamination rate.

Wearing protective gloves is highly recommended in medical practice. The purpose of this study is to explore how wearing, or not wearing, protective gloves affects

* the frequency of unconscious self-contact
* contamination of the gloved/ungloved hand

Conditions

  • Hygiene
  • Equipment Contamination
  • Health Education

Interventions

PROCEDURE

wearing gloves

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University Innsbruck

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arnulf Benzer, MD · MUI Innsbruck

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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