Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs)
Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs): A Technology-based Self-management Intervention to Improve Patient Hand Hygiene and Reduce Hand Contamination Among Older Adults
Case Western Reserve University
250 participants
Aug 17, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- \> 65 years of age,
- Admitted to a medical-surgical unit,
- Expected to be hospitalized for more than 24 hours,
- Written informed consent within 24-48 hours of admission, and
- Speak and read English
- Physical capacity to use the CHAMPs system
- Sufficient hearing and seeing capacity to indicate understanding and use of the intervention.
Exclusion Criteria8
- terminal illness that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
- behavior disorder
- violent behavior
- physical or cognitive impairments that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
- limiting understanding and use of CHAMPs
- undergoing radiation or chemotherapy that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
- skin disorders or
- broken skin on hands.
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Interventions
Use of a patient-smart hand sanitation dispenser that provides reminders that are non-beeping reminders.
Locations(2)
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NCT05866393