Effects of Basic Infection Control Skills License on Knowledge and Practice of Health Care Workers

Considering the importance of infection control practices, Madinah Public Health Department launched a new license program for healthcare workers, the Basic Infection Control Skills License program (BICSL). BICSL has been launched to train healthcare workers all over the region in a scientific standardized way.

To assess BICSL effectiveness, a non-randomized control study will be conducted in two of the general hospitals in Madinah. An electronic bilingual self-administrated valid and reliable questionnaire will be used to evaluate the workers knowledge and practices before and after three and six months of the intervention. The knowledge and practice answers were scored and the scores were categorized to facilitate the comparison. A BICSL certified trainer will be conducting the intervention, a one to one training session. A SPSS program will be used to analyze the data. Administrative and ethical approval was obtained from Madinah health authority. The participants will complete an electronic consent before they fill the questionnaire. Confidentiality and privacy as well as freedom to participate or not will be insured to all participants. This study will assess the license effectiveness in improve knowledge and compliance.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Infection Control Training
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Training; Other: General session

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 66
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Working in the chosen hospitals.
2. Health care worker (Physician, nurse or technician) of any gender, age, or experience.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Refuse to participate in the study.
2. Have BICSL certificate before the study implemented.
3. On leave during study period.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; A BICSL certified trainer conduct the intervention. It includes hand on training session standardized in a scientific way. The participants trained on hand hygiene and use of PPE. Also, it includes meningitis and influenza vaccination as well as fit test to verify the correctly fitting of the respirator.	Other: Training; The Basic Infection Control Skills License program (BICSL) includes meningitis and influenza vaccination as well as fit test to verify the correctly fitting of the respirator. Also, the license program includes training on hand hygiene and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). To get the license, each participants must get the vaccination and attend one to one training session with a program trainer 34.
Active Comparator: Control; A general session about the basic of infection control was conducted for this group. The lecture performed in the same way of the regular training fulfill.	Other: General session; A general session about the basic of infection control was conducted for this group. The lecture performed in the same way of the regular training fulfill.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self administered knowledge	will be measured by questionnaire	3 months
Self administered practice	will be measured by questionnaire	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self administered knowledge	between different sexes and professions, it will be measured by questionnaire	3 months
Self administred practices	between different sexes and professions, it will be measured by questionnaire	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Madinah Saudi Board Community Medicine
• Collaborators: Madinah directorate - Ministry of Health

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 18, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): August 5, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): August 5, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2016
• Last Verified: July 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infections
• Other Study ID Numbers: SBCMM001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No