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Preventive Medicine 2018
Journal of Preventive Medicine
ISSN: 2572-5483
Page 51
July 16-17, 2018
London, UK
9
th
Edition of International Conference on
Preventive Medicine
& Public Health
Introduction:
In 2003, the outbreak of severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) took 286 lives of Hong Kong people and eight
of them were healthcare professionals. Since then, the Hong Kong
government has established the Centre for Health Protection and
has been promoting hand hygiene to Hong Kong people proactively
over the last decade. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has
also been advocating the importance of hand hygiene because it
is an important measure to prevent the outbreak of communicable
diseases in the community. Given that there are limited studies
exploring the quality of hand washing among the general public as
well as their hand hygiene practice in terms of duration of hand
washing and common hand washing moments, these became the
aims and objectives of this study.
Methodology:
This was a quantitative study which was conducted
in Jan 2018. A black box with a 20W ultra-violet light was used
to assess the remaining fluorescent stains on both hands of
participants after hand washing in the community and the stains
were recorded in accordance with the anatomical structure of the
hand.
Results:
A total of 190 Hong Kong adults (M=94, F=96) were
recruited. Among the eight hand hygiene moments, the majority
of the participants washed their hands after handling vomitus or
fecal matter (87%) and after using the toilet (73%). However, fewer
participants did so before touching their eyes, nose and mouth
(12%) and after touching public installations or equipment (17%).
The mean of the duration of hand washing was 36.54 seconds
(SD=18.57) and 165 (86.8%) participants performed hand washing
for more than 20 seconds. The top three common missed areas
of hand washing were the fingertips (48.1%), medial (30.5%), and
back of the palm (28%). Multiple logistic regression showed that
participants who have tertiary or above education tend to have one
hand hygiene moment more than those who have below tertiary
education (p=0.000, B=1.003). Thus, participants aged 30 tended
to have fivemissed areasmore than those aged below30 (p=0.001,
B=4.933).
Biography
Wong Sze Wing Julia is an EdD candidate of the University of Liverpool. She
is a Registered Nurse as well as a Senior Lecturer of the School of Nursing in
Tung Wah College, Hong Kong. She is also a fellowmember of the Hong Kong
College of Education and Research in Nursing. She has published a fewpapers
in reputed journals and has been serving as a Reviewer of reputed journals.
Her research interest includes Public Health, Quality of Life, Nursing Education.
juliawong@twc.edu.hkThe hand hygiene practice of Hong Kong people: A quantitative
study
Wong Sze Wing Julia
Tung Wah College, Hong Kong
Wong Sze Wing Julia, J Prev Med 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2572-5483-C1-003