Improving nurses' hand hygiene compliance using gamification

Rita Marques; João Gregório; Fernando Pinheiro; Pedro Póvoa; Miguel Mira Da Silva; Luís Velez Lapão

Improving nurses' hand hygiene compliance using gamification

Rita Marques, João Gregório, Fernando Pinheiro, Pedro Póvoa, Miguel Mira Da Silva, Luís Velez Lapão

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Abstract

Healthcare acquired infections are one of the biggest problems healthcare field is facing, which can end up in an increasing quantity of deaths, extra-days of hospital stay and costs for both the hospital and the patient. Performing hand hygiene is a simple and inexpensive prevention measure, but healthcare workers compliance with it is still far from desired. Recognized hurdles are lack of time, forgetfulness, wrong technique and motivation. Besides, nurses' perception about their compliance is disturbed by a busy schedule. This study aims at exploring the use of gamification to promote nurses' HH compliance self-awareness and action. Real-time collected from an indoor location system will provide feedback information to a group of nurses working in an ICU ward. In this paper we present our research's motivation and methods, along with the collected results and its discussion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-42
Number of pages	10
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1574
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics, PAHI 2015 - Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Oct 2015 → …

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OSYRISH project is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-COM/5016/2012) and GTHM/FCT (UID/Multi/04413/2013). This support and the individual grants to R. Marques and J. Gregório are gratefully acknowledged.

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