Trial reportJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2015
Outcomes of a pilot hand hygiene randomized cluster trial to reduce communicable infections among US office-based employees.
Trial report in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03454009 (Kent State University / Price Chopper Wellness Promotion Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Kent State University / Price Chopper Wellness Promotion Study
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta-analysis.British journal of health psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of educational interventions on the prevention of influenza: A systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of a Comprehensive Workplace Hand Hygiene Program on Employer Health Care Insurance Claims and Costs, Absenteeism, and Employee Perceptions and Practices.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2016Trial
- An Investigation of the General Population's Self-Reported Hand Hygiene Behaviour and Compliance in a Cross-European Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Infectious illness prevention and control methods and their effectiveness in non-health workplaces: an integrated literature review.Journal of infection prevention · 2018Review
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the effectiveness of an office-based multimodal hand hygiene improvement intervention in reducing self-reported communicable infections and work-related absence.
methodsA randomized cluster trial including an electronic training video, hand sanitizer, and educational posters (n = 131, intervention; n = 193, control). Primary outcomes include (1) self-reported acute respiratory infections (ARIs)/influenza-like illness (ILI) and/or gastrointestinal (GI) infections during the prior 30 days; and (2) related lost work days. Incidence rate ratios calculated using generalized linear mixed models with a Poisson distribution, adjusted for confounders and random cluster effects.
resultsA 31% relative reduction in self-reported combined ARI-ILI/GI infections (incidence rate ratio: 0.69; 95% confidence interval, 0.49 to 0.98). A 21% nonsignificant relative reduction in lost work days.
conclusionsAn office-based multimodal hand hygiene improvement intervention demonstrated a substantive reduction in self-reported combined ARI-ILI/GI infections.
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