Compliance of nursing student to hand hygiene as infection control measure in DLSUMC Dasmariñas, Cavite

Date of Completion

2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

Infection Control, Compliance, College Students, Nursing, Hand Hygiene

Abstract

The descriptive research method was utilized in this study. The respondents were the nursing students of De La Salle Health Sciences Institute Batch 2010. The chosen using purposive sampling. A total of 237 nursing students who were assigned to have their duty in selected wards in DLSUMC, Dasmarinas, Cavite were participated. A modified questionnaire was developed by the researchers patterned after the undergraduate thesis of Cortez and Inocencion (2003) and in the Masters thesis of Verdad (2002). The following statistical treatment was used to answer specific problems and to test the hypothesis of the study: percentage, mean, f-test and t-test. The following conclusions were drawn: 1) Majority of the respondents were female, Catholic, and were assigned at 1300; 2) The respondents complied to a great extent in performing hand hygiene as infection control measure; 4) The level of compliance to hand hygiene as infection control measure of the respondents had no significant difference when grouped according to gender, religious affiliation and area of assignment.

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