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Table 2 Factors associated with the completeness of fluorescent alcohol-based handrubbing under ultraviolet-light (second year)

From: Using an ultraviolet cabinet improves compliance with the World Health Organization’s hand hygiene recommendations by undergraduate medical students: a randomized controlled trial

Variable

AHR Incomplete application (n = 127)

AHR Complete application (n = 115)

p-value

Hazard ratio

95% confidence interval

p’-value

Univariate

Logistic regression

Age ± SD (years)

21 ± 1.7

21 ± 2.7

0.68

Female gender

59.1

69.6

0.08

1.86

1.02–3.37

0.041

Personal feedback with UV cabinet

44.1

73.0

< 0.001

3.84

2.09–7.06

< 0.001

New Hand hygiene formation

31.5

43.8

0.057

1.59

0.82–3.09

0.17

Extra-university use of UV cabinet

14.5

30.4

0.004

1.18

0.54–2.58

0.67

Infectious disease unit traineeship

19.4

16.1

0.51

Surgical unit traineeship

54.5

70.5

0.011

1.85

1.00–3.43

0.049

Intensive care unit traineeship

10.5

13.4

0.49

Care of a patient needing contact precautions

70.2

75.0

0.41

Care of a patient hospitalized for nosocomial infection

16.1

15.3

0.86

Familiarity with alcoholic solution for HH

75.0

82.1

0.17

1.44

0.73–2.86

0.29

  1. Results are expressed as %, except Age as mean (±SD)
  2. p-value: comparison by univariate test between the group with AHR Incomplete application versus the group with AHR Complete application
  3. p’-value: p-value by the multivariate logistic regression
  4. Completeness of AHR handrubbing:
  5. -AHR incomplete application corresponds to the presence of one or more areas without fluorescence on the hands and wrists of the students under UV-light
  6. -AHR complete application corresponds to the absence of areas without fluorescence on the hands and wrists of the students under UV-light
  7. Variables concerning the personal experience with hand hygiene between the first and the second year were collected on the second year as a questionnaire format from each 3rd degree student (see Additional file 2)
  8. Abbreviations: AHR: Alcohol-based handrub, SD: standard deviation; UV: Ultraviolet