Tailor VHA HH Bundle for Acute Mental Health Care

Conditions

• Hand Hygiene Compliance

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - 90 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Tailored Hand Hygiene Bundle — OTHER
  Adapt and develop a hand hygiene bundle for mental health care settings with evidence-based best practices. Disseminate the hand hygiene bundle.
• Non-Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer — OTHER
  Install non-alcohol based hand sanitizer dispensers

Study Details

Mental health settings are particularly vulnerable to outbreaks and transmission due to infectious pathogens like norovirus. This occurs since access to soap and water (sinks) is limited for safety reasons and alcohol hand rub is not available outside patient rooms because of concerns for ingestion and fire. Thus, novel hand hygiene improvement interventions are needed in mental health settings including new hand hygiene bundles tailored to VHA mental health settings and novel alcohol-free hand rubs that are safe for installation and use in mental health settings. Non-alcohol hand rub has been approved and is currently used in some VAs, but isn't currently a standard VA-wide practice. These products can expand access to hand hygiene in locations where alcohol-based products are not allowed.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 1, 2026

Status verified

Jun 2026

Primary completion

Jun 30, 2029

Completion

Sep 30, 2030

Study Design

Enrollment

4 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SEQUENTIAL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: Hand Hygiene Bundle Implementation
  Adapt and develop a HH bundle for mental health care settings with evidenced-based best practices. Evaluate whether the tailored HH bundle improves HH compliance compared to the VHA standard bundle.
• Experimental: Non-Alcohol Based Hand Rub Implementation
  Evaluate whether implementation of non-alcohol based hand sanitizer improves hand hygiene compliance compared to the tailored hand hygiene bundle.

Primary Outcome Measure

Hand Hygiene Compliance [ Time Frame: 3 years ]

Central Contacts

• Eli N Perencevich, MD MS BS
  (319) 338-0581
  [email protected]
• Stacey M Hockett Sherlock, MA BA
  (319) 338-0581
  [email protected]

Locations (4)

Find similar trials in Hines, IL