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%T Healthcare workers perception regarding hand hygiene %A Oliveira, Adriana Cristina de %A Paula, Adriana Oliveira de %J Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online %N 2 %P 321-326 %V 9 %D 2017 %K Hand Hygiene; Hospital Infection; Health Personnel %@ 2175-5361 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-53437-3 %X Objective: To verify aspects related to the perception of healthcare workers regarding hand hygiene. Methods: Cross-sectional study in a emergency care unit at a university hospital in Belo Horizonte. A structured questionnaire was applied to nursing and medical staff. The statistic program SPSS was used, descriptive and univariate analysis were made. Results: Healthcare workers attributed as high the impact of infections on clinical evolution of patients and the effectiveness of hand hygiene in controlling those infections. The rate for self-reported compliance to hand hygiene was 76.0% for the nursing staff and 72.5% for medical staff, but lower than 60.0% for coworkers. Conclusions: Healthcare workers perceive hand hygiene as an effective measure to control infection and recognize that compliance rates of hand hygiene among health teams in general are low. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info