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Hand Hygiene Practices and Microbial Contamination on Feeding Tubes and Other Components of Feeding Systems

NCT04240132 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 51

Last updated 2021-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Enteral feeding tube (EFT) and component of feeding systems can serve as a reservoir of microorganisms, and the main reason is inappropriate hand hygiene practices. The aim of the project is to determine colonization of microorganisms on the EFT and other components and assess the relation between colonization and adherence to hand hygiene practices by healthcare workers in the intensive care unit.

This prospective, observational and semi-experimental study will be conducted in one year. The project will be completed with healthcare workers and 51 patients who are feeding enteral route via nasogastric tube at least for three days. The researchers will provide training to healthcare workers in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Hand Hygiene Guidelines. Hand hygiene behaviors of the participants will be observed and the question forms will be filled before and after training by researchers. The samples for microbial analysis will be collected from the EFT by sterile swaps.

Conditions

  • Enteral Nutrition
  • Microbial Colonization
  • Adherence

Interventions

OTHER

Adherence to Hand Hygiene

determine the colonization of microorganisms due to microbial reproduction on the external surface of the distal end of the enteral feeding tube (EFT), hub of the EFT and other feeding system components and assess the relation between the colonization and adherence to hand hygiene practices by nurses and other healthcare workers

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Turkish Society of Clinical Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition

    collaborator OTHER

  • Istanbul Demiroglu Bilim University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nurten Ozen · Demiroglu Bilim Üniversitesi

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-02
Primary Completion
2020-05-25
Completion
2021-02-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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