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Table 1 The mean percentage of hand hygiene compliance before and after intervention in both groups

From: The effect of training and awareness of subtle control on the frequency of hand hygiene among intensive care unit nurses

Hand hygiene compliance

Moments of hand hygiene compliance

Mean before the intervention (SD)

Mean after the intervention (SD)

P-value

Intervention group

Before touching a patient

24.2 (14)

32.5 (22.1)

< 0.001

Before a clean/aseptic procedure

3.2 (7.4)

26.7 (19.5)

< 0.001

After body fluid exposure risk

88.9 (21.4)

97.8 (7.2)

0.03

After touching a patient

29.7 (24.3)

46.1 (20.6)

0.001

After touching patient surroundings

11.6 (18.9)

17.1 (22.8)

0.07

Total

24.5 (11.7)

41.9 (13.7)

< 0.001

Control group

Before touching a patient

45.6 (27)

54.8 (19.1)

0.14

Before a clean/aseptic procedure

23.3 (22.3)

32.7 (19.1)

0.008

After body fluid exposure risk

93.7 (15.2)

98.5 (19.1)

0.14

After touching a patient

31.8 (24.8)

41.8 (17.1)

0.04

After touching patient surroundings

14.6 (17.7)

20.6 (15.3)

0.04

Total

34.1 (14.7)

41.8 (8.7)

0.004

  1. The mean percentage of each group = \(\frac{{{\text{The}}\;{\text{sum}}\;{\text{of}}\;{\text{hand}}\;{\text{hygiene}}\;{\text{percentage}}\;{\text{in}}\;{\text{the}}\;{\text{group}}}}{{{\text{Total}}\;{\text{number}}\;{\text{of}}\;{\text{participants}}\;{\text{of}}\;{\text{the}}\;{\text{group}}}}\)
  2. The Wilcoxon test was used