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A Feasibility Study of Hand Hygiene Status in Korea Hospitals (국내병원의 유형별 손위생 수행실태 조사분석)

  • Lee, Yongkyoon;Shin, Hyunhee
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2017
  • Purpose : The easiest and most cost-effective way to prevent medical-related infections is known as proper hand washing of health care workers. The experience of MERS in domestic medical institutions has increased the importance of hand hygiene for medical workers to prevent infections in hospitals. It is necessary to investigate the level of hand hygiene practice by type of medical institutions and the factors influencing the infection prevention. Methods : Domestic and overseas hand hygiene related business cases and literature data were collected and analyzed in order to investigate the hand hygiene status of medical institutions in Korea. Result : As a result of hand hygiene monitoring of all hospital-level medical institutions in 2016, the total number of observations was 24,328 and the hand hygiene performance rate was 75.9%. The hand hygiene performance rate of hospitals was 71.5% for general hospitals, 75% for general hospitals, and 81.3% for hospitals. Implications : In general hospitals and hospitals, the HR(Hand Rubbing) method is preferred as a way of performing hand hygiene, whereas the HW(Hand Washing) method is relatively high in the small hospitals. It is estimated that the HW system is preferred because of the cost burden at the hospital medical institution. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate the related expenses to improve the hand hygiene performance of the physicians who are engaged in the hospitals.

The Effect of a Scenario based Hand Hygiene Education Program on Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Hand Hygiene Perception, Hand Hygiene Compliance and Hand Hygiene Method in Nursing Students (사례기반 손위생 교육프로그램이 간호대학생의 손위생 지식, 인식, 이행률 및 방법에 미치는 효과)

  • Hwang, Eun Suk;Park, Jin Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.194-203
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to test the effect of a scenario based hand hygiene education program on hand hygiene knowledge, hand hygiene perception, hand hygiene compliance and hand hygiene method in nursing students. Methods: A non-equivalent control group, non-synchronized quasi-experimental design was used. Forty five nursing students participated in the study with 22 in the experimental group and 23 in the control group. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, ${\chi}^2-test$, t-test, and repeated measures of ANOVA. Results: There were significant increases in hand hygiene knowledge (t=-4.28, p<.001) and accuracy of the hand hygiene method by week (F=7.33, p<.001). However, hand hygiene perception (t=-1.67, p=.102) and hand hygiene compliance rate (F=7.33, p=.405) were not significantly changed. Conclusion: The effects of the scenario based hand hygiene education program provided in this study were excellent, compared to the other hand hygiene education programs. Moreover, as a result of investigating the education effects through direct observation for 4 weeks, appropriate feedback was offered in the third week, and it was found that maintaining the effect was necessary. However, the current status of hand hygiene compliance and accuracy of methods for ensuring hand hygiene need to be studied further.

An Experience of Personal Hygiene Education and Hand-washing Practices among Adolescents in the Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (청소년건강행태온라인조사 자료에서 개인위생 교육 경험과 손씻기 실천의 연관성)

  • Min, Jun Won;Chang, Young-Seo
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.31-43
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    • 2014
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship of personal hygiene education and hand-washing practices among adolescents. Then the impact of such factors on the hand-washing practices was analyzed. Methods: The data of the 2012 Youth Health Risk Behavior web-based Survey collected by Korean Center for Disease Control was analyzed using SPSS. Total 74,186 of middle and hish school students were included. Uni-variate analysis was done by complex sample crosstabs and multi-variate analysis was done by complex sample logistic regression. Results: The 26.8% of students experienced personal hygiene education. The students of boys, low school grade, coeducation, metropolitan, high school record and high economic status experienced more hygiene education. The hand-washing practices were high in the students with the experience of personal hygiene education. In the factors affecting the hand-washing practice, the experience of personal hygiene education was consistently significant. If students experienced the personal hygiene education, they showed 20~30% more rates of hand-washing practices. Conclusions: Hand-washing practice was high when experiencing personal hygiene education. The personal hygiene education was necessary to improve the rate of hand-washing practices.

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Evauation of Management & Hygienic Status of High School Foodservice using ATP Bioluminescence Assay (고등학교 급식시설 운영실태 및 ATP Bioluminescence를 이용한 위생상태 조사연구)

  • Kye, Seung-Hee;Hwang, Seong-Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.515-524
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    • 2017
  • An investigation was conducted to evaluate the hygienic status of 53 high school foodservice systems in Gyeonggi province by using hygiene management guide checklist, ATP bioluminescence assay of food utensils were conducted during process. The 5 hygiene management guide checklist groups about personal hygiene, cooking facilities control, cross contamination control, cook and storage control, management control were checked by experts and had good grades but there were some inadequate behaviors on observation. Total cleaning levels were inadequate, including hand, rubber gloves, aprons, knives, food tray, machine and instruments. The possibility of cross contamination is also noted in handles for refrigerators, ovens, food dryers, hand washing. It was also noted that there were too much work on the nutritionist and cook, additional personnel need to be added. lack of space, deterioration of facilities were identified in some high school foodservice systems. ATP bioluminescence assay was conducted on surface of food facilities, ATP ranged $1,393{\pm}5,041.2RLU$ on yellow gloves, $244{\pm}258.7RLU$ on pink gloves, $3,780{\pm}11,418.6RLU$ on apron, $49,056{\pm}62,831.4RLU$ on refrigerator grip, $41,422{\pm}61,259.8RLU$ in oven, $31,407{\pm}41,344.9RLU$ on hand cleaning board.

Factors affecting dental biofilm maturity assessed with Quantitative Light-induced Fluorescence-Digital in Korean older adults

  • Shin, Na-Ri;Choi, Jun-Seon
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.351-362
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the maturity of dental biofilm, which was assessed with quantitative light-induced fluorescence-digital(QLF-D), in a sample of Korean older adults. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 67 participants, aged 65 years and older. All participants completed a questionnaire and tests to measure their manual dexterity and handgrip strength, which are parameters that indicate hand function abilities. To evaluate dental biofilm maturity, 804 surfaces of six index teeth were imaged using QLF-D and then quantified as ${\Delta}R$ values. All data were collected from May 25, 2017 to April 30, 2018. The independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and step-wise multiple linear regression were performed to analyze the factors associated with the maturity of dental biofilm (${\Delta}R$). Results: The multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that the factor most strongly related to dental biofilm maturity(${\Delta}R$) was manual dexterity (${\beta}=-0.326$), followed by handgrip strength (${\beta}=-0.303$) and use of interdental cleaning devices (${\beta}=-0.283$) (p<0.05). Conclusions: Manual dexterity, handgrip strength, and use of interdental cleaning devices are factors that can predict dental biofilm maturity in adults aged 65 years or older. Therefore, the hand function of a patient should be evaluated first, before assessing the oral hygiene status of the patient or providing him/her with oral health education, and the dental hygienist should provide differentiated oral hygiene care depending on the patient's hand function ability. Finally, dental hygienists should help older adults to recognize the importance of auxiliary oral hygiene devices such as interdental brushes and keep motivating them to use the devices more frequently.

Actual Condition Investigation of Radiologist on the Hand Washing Management and Personal Hygiene Management (방사선사의 손 씻기 관리와 개인위생관리의 실태조사)

  • Han, Sang-Hyun;Hong, Dong-Hee;Kim, Gha-Jung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.409-415
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to know the status of management of nosocomial infection and to present basic data for improving management of nosocomial infection. As a result, the average score of the recognition and performance of radiologist on the management of hand washing is 4.378, and 4.199 of 5. The average score of the recognition and performance of radiologist on the management of personal hygiene is 4.284, and 3.990 of 5. The recognition of hand washing management according to the general character, statistically significant difference according to the gender, age, education, career. In the performance is statistically significant difference according to the gender, marriage situation. In the recognition of personal hygiene management according to the general character, statistically significant difference according to the age, education, career. Performance of statistically significant difference according to the marriage situation, career. Finally, statistically significant difference between recognition and performance of radiologists on management of hand washing(r=0.453, p=0.000) and personal hygiene(r=0.415, p=0.000).

Effects of Periodic Visiting Education Support on Nutrition and Hygiene Practices at Center for Childeren's Foodservice Management -Focus on Ulsan Area- (어린이급식관리지원센터의 영양 및 위생·안전관리 방문교육지원 효과 -울산지역을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Jee Hye
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this current study was to examine the effects of nutrition and food safety management support by the Center for Children's Foodservice Management (CCFSM) in foodservice facilities for children in the Ulsan area. From December 2014 to July 2015, the status of nutrition practices and hygiene practices was assessed by dietitians using nutrition and hygiene practice checklists. The subjects of study were 48 institutional foodservice facilities for children. Some nutrition practice items showed significant increases in average scores of 'using CCFSM menus (P<0.001), revising menus (P<0.05), and reconfirm menus (P<0.01)' from pre-support to post-support. Regarding hygiene practices, some items between pre-support to post-support showed significant increases in average scores of 'having equipment for hand washing & disinfecting' (P<0.01), 'wearing disinfected clothing for kitchen hygienically' (P<0.05), 'proper sterilization' (P<0.05), 'recording the origin of ingredients' (P<0.01), 'use of different knives/cutting boards' (P<0.05), and 'an appropriate thawing process' (P<0.05) from pre-support to post-support. Based on the above results, we found that nutrition and hygiene management support by CCFSM in foodservice facilities for children had a positive influence on status of some nutrition and food safety practices.

Infection control among dental hygienists according to infection control education experiences (치과위생사의 감염관리 교육경험에 따른 감염관리 실태)

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.547-556
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the infection control education experiences of dental hygienists and the state of their infection control. Methods : The subjects in this study were the dental hygienists who worked in Seoul. The relationship of their infection control education experiences to their gender, marital status, academic credential, workplace, length of service, infection control implementation, experience of being exposed to infection, way of coping with it, hand washing, use of personal protection devices and equipment management was analyzed. Results : It is found that the variable to affect the state of infection control was educational experiences about handpiece water pipe management, ultrasonic scaler water pipe management and three-way syringe water pipe management. Conclusions : Dental hygienists who are one of major dental personnels should receive systematic education on infection control to acquire accurate knowledge to ensure the successful prevention of cross infection.

A survey research on industrial workers' oral examination status and oral health educational request level (사업장 근로자의 구강검진 및 구강보건교육요구도에 관한 조사연구)

  • Choi, Mi-Hye
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.185-195
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study is to opportunity of oral examination and positively utilizing the oral-health educational method of being preferred on the basis of the contents promote workers' oral health. Methods : This study carried out questionnaire research by self-administrated method, which was selected by convenience sampling method, from February 9th to March 6th, 2009 targeting 237 workers where are located in Gunsan city of Jeollabuk-do Province. Results : 1. Workers' interest and recognition of importance in oral health were high, and were low in subjective oral-health knowledge level, on the other hand. 2. Workers were indicated to be high in the response rate of work-site oral examination and, on the other hand, to be high in the dissatisfied rate at work-site oral examination. 3. As for work-site oral examination, the workers were indicated to positively recognize participation in work-site oral-health education along with high necessity. 4. Workers were indicated to prefer the most a method of lecture such as dentist along with contents in prevention and curing method of periodontal disease. Conclusions : An efficient result is thought to be probably obtained given offering an opportunity of oral examination and positively utilizing the oral-health educational method of being preferred on the basis of the contents with the highest preference, in order to promote workers' oral health.

Perception of Risk and Using Status of Hand-Held Dental X-Ray Unit (이동형 치과 X선 발생장치 사용실태와 위험지각)

  • Han, Gyeong-Soon
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.442-447
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    • 2014
  • The aim of this study was to analyze perception of risk and using status of hand-held dental x-ray unit among dental hygienists in metropolitan area. This research was based on perception of risk and using status of hand-held dental x-ray unit survey in 257 dental hygienists from July 7 to 31, 2014. Data were analyzed with t-test, one way ANOVA, and multivariable logistic regression analysis using SPSS Windows 21.0 program and significance level was set at p<0.05. The hand-held dental x-ray unit to cover all type patients was 24.8%. The 62.6% of patients and 81.3% of operator doesn't wear lead apron, the experience rate of radiation education was 40.1%. The average of risk perception was 3.08 points. The associated factors of risk perception were career, number of radiation exposure per day, and possession of fixed x-ray unit. The increased of accumulated dose when the occupationally exposed work continues, it is necessary to effort of defense against dental radiation.