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Kemelly Karolliny Moreira Resende1, Layla Ferreira Neves1, Leonardo de Rezende Costa Nagib1
1Kemelly Karolliny Moreira Resende is a graduate student, Universidade de Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Brazil; Layla Ferreira Neves is a graduate student, Universidade de Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Brazil; Leonardo de Rezende Costa Nagib is a postgraduate student, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil; Lázara Joyce Oliveira Martins is Professor, Universidade de Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Brazil; and Cláudio Rodrigues Rezende Costa is Professor, Universidade de Rio Verde, Faculty of Dentistry, Rio Verde, Brazil.
Abstract:
Health professionals and their patients are subject to cross-contamination and potential exposure to harmful infectious diseases. A common form of cross-contamination is through dental procedures without proper instrument care and lack of hand hygiene. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the published research on the adherence of educators and students in academic dental institutions to hand hygiene procedures. This systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and included articles collected in the Cochrane, LILACS, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. The initial search identified 1,196 articles. Ultimately, three studies were included for qualitative synthesis and two for the meta-analysis. The three articles had similar characteristics of observational hand hygiene research involving educators and dental students. In all three, hand hygiene among dental students did not reach 50% of the total number of opportunities, which is a troubling result. Although the hand hygiene rate of educators was higher than that of dental students, these findings point to a need to further promote hand hygiene to future professionals to avoid cross-contamination between health professionals and patients.
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