Behavioral intervention strategies to nudge hand hygiene

Subjects: Psychology >> Medical Psychology submitted time 2021-11-24

郭梦茜 张宁

Abstract： Maintaining optimal hand hygiene is an important strategy for infection control and prevention, but how to increase adherence to hand hygiene practices has been a major challenge to prevent infectious diseases and reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Hand hygiene nudging intervention based on behavioral science transforms hand washing behavior into an automatic triggering habit in a more “imperceptible” way, which makes up for many limitations of traditional hand hygiene intervention based on knowledge sharing and health education. Given on different influential mechanisms, hand hygiene nudging strategies can be classified into four categories: providing decision information, optimizing decision options, influencing decision structure and reminding decision direction. The effectiveness of multi-facet nudging strategies has also been confirmed in practice, but there is still a lack of hand hygiene nudging intervention in Chinese sociocultural contexts. The future direction is to carry out such nudging interventions in hospitals, schools, communities and other public places in China based on the theory of behavioral sciences, so as to contribute to the prevention and control of infectious diseases and improve public health. "

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