Promoting Hand Hygiene in Long-Term Care to Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19

促进长期护理中的手部卫生，以减少 COVID-19 的传播

• 批准号: 552459-2020
• 负责人: Cross, Stephen
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Conestoga College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research Rapid Response to COVID-19
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=696164
• 关键词: Promoting; Hand; Hygiene; Long; Term

Improving hand hygiene (HH) is one of the most effective solutions to reduce COVID-19 from spreading in long-term care (LTC) homes. Unfortunately, caregivers in LTC homes do not consistently practice HH before and after resident interaction. Hygienic Echo Inc., a company led by Dr. Geoff Fernie, has developed a device, called the Buddy Badge, which is a smart monitoring system that detects HH opportunities, generates HH reminder signals when needed and enables monitoring individual and group HH performance. Testing of the Buddy Badge in hospitals has shown it is effective and maintains significant increases in staff HH performance. The aim with this proposal is to explore the use of the Buddy Badge System in LTC, where HH compliance is very difficult to monitor. We aim to: 1) customize the system to include the different LTC staff roles; 2) differentiate between different zones with infection precautions (i.e., resident rooms, communal bathrooms, dirty utility rooms, etc.); 3) tailor HH prompts for staff to support HH compliance working in large, shared-occupancy zones (i.e., dining rooms, rec rooms); and 4) explore the relationship between staff's Buddy Badge use and occurrence and/or spread of COVID-19 in LTC.

改善手部卫生 (HH) 是减少 COVID-19 传播的最有效解决方案之一 长期护理 (LTC) 之家。不幸的是，LTC 之家的护理人员以前并没有始终如一地实践 HH 以及与居民互动后。由 Geoff Fernie 博士领导的 Hygienic Echo Inc. 开发了一种设备， 称为 Buddy Badge，这是一个智能监控系统，可以检测 HH 机会，生成 HH 需要时发出提醒信号，并能够监控个人和团体的家庭表现。测试 医院中的 Buddy Badge 已显示出其有效性，并能显着提高员工 HH 绩效。 该提案的目的是探索 Buddy Badge 系统在 LTC 中的使用，其中 HH 合规性是 非常难以监控。我们的目标是： 1) 定制系统以包含不同的 LTC 员工角色； 2） 区分不同区域并采取感染预防措施（即居民房间、公共浴室、 肮脏的杂物间等）； 3) 为员工量身定制 HH 提示，以支持大规模工作中的 HH 合规性， 共用区域（即餐厅、娱乐室）； 4）探索员工Buddy之间的关系 LTC 中徽章的使用以及 COVID-19 的发生和/或传播。