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Table 5 Factors associated with the respect of the WHO’s hand hygiene opportunities (“the five moments for HH in health care”) on 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

Incomplete respect (n = 117)

Full respect (n = 125)

p-value

Hazard ratio

95% confidence interval

p’-value

Univariate

Logistic regression

Personal feedback with UV cabinet (%)

50.0

65.3

0.016

1.88

1.10–3.21

0.02

Female gender (%)

60.5

67.8

0.247

Age ± SD (years)

21 ± 2.6

21 ± 1.8

0.254

New Hand hygiene formation (%)

41.6

33.1

0.179

0.70

0.40–3.20

0.20

Extra-university use of UV cabinet (%)

22.1

21.2

0.863

Infectious disease unit traineeship (%)

17.7

17.8

0.985

Surgical unit traineeship (%)

66.1

58.5

0.235

Intensive care unit traineeship (%)

11.5

12.7

0.779

Care of a patient needing contact precautions (%)

71.7

72.9

0.839

Care of a patient hospitalized for nosocomial infection (%)

17.7

13.7

0.401

Familiarity with alcoholic solution for HH (%)

73.5

82.2

0.109

0.55

0.88–3.18

0.11

  1. p value = comparison by univariate test between the group with incomplete respect versus the group with complete respect of the WHO’s HH opportunities
  2. p’-value: p-value by the multivariate logistic regression
  3. Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, UV Ultraviolet, HH Hand hygiene