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Birth attendants' hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Background: With an increasing number of women delivering in healthcare facilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance on labour wards is pivotal to preventing infections. Currently there are no estimates of how often birth attendants comply with hand hygiene, or of the factors influencing compliance in healthcare facilities in LMICs.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review to investigate the a) level of compliance, b) determinants of compliance and c) interventions to improve hand hygiene during labour and delivery among birth attendants in healthcare facilities of LMICs. We also aimed to assess the quality of the included studies and to report the intra-cluster correlation for studies conducted in multiple facilities.

Results: We obtained 797 results across four databases and reviewed 71 full texts. Of these, fifteen met our inclusion criteria. Overall, the quality of the included studies was particularly compromised by poorly described sampling methods and definitions. Hand hygiene compliance varied substantially across studies from 0 to 100%; however, the heterogeneity in definitions of hand hygiene did not allow us to combine or compare these meaningfully. The five studies with larger sample sizes and clearer definitions estimated compliance before aseptic procedures opportunities, to be low (range: 1-38%). Three studies described two multi-component interventions, both were shown to be feasible.

Conclusions: Hand hygiene compliance was low for studies with larger sample sizes and clear definitions. This poses a substantial challenge to infection prevention during birth in LMICs facilities. We also found that the quality of many studies was suboptimal. Future studies of hand hygiene compliance on the labour ward should be designed with better sampling frames, assess inter-observer agreement, use measures to improve the quality of data collection, and report their hand hygiene definitions clearly.

SUBMITTER: Gon G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713338 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Birth attendants' hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

Gon Giorgia G de Barra Mícheál M Dansero Lucia L Nash Stephen S Campbell Oona M R OMR

BMC health services research 20201203 1

<h4>Background</h4>With an increasing number of women delivering in healthcare facilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance on labour wards is pivotal to preventing infections. Currently there are no estimates of how often birth attendants comply with hand hygiene, or of the factors influencing compliance in healthcare facilities in LMICs.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a systematic review to investigate the a) level of compliance, b) determinan ...[more]

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Birth attendants' hand hygiene compliance in healthcare facilities in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

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