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Challenges for adherence to bacterial resistance actions in large hospitals
Mariana Sanches de Mello1, Adriana Cristina Oliveira1
1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objectives:
to identify the challenges to actions to contain bacterial resistance.
Methods:
cross-sectional study, carried out in 30 large-sized hospitals in Minas Gerais, from 2018 to 2019. The professionals were interviewed, and the environment and actions to prevent bacterial resistance were observed.
Results:
regarding the knowledge of health care professionals about the measures of bacterial resistance prevention, 78.3% did not correctly describe the five moments of hand hygiene, and 76.6% did not correctly describe the measures to control bacterial resistance. The simple hygiene of hands, followed by alcohol rubbing was predominant (48.3%) among workers, and soap dispensers were next to alcohol dispensers in 58.3% of the nursing stations in care units.
Conclusions:
the insufficient knowledge from the professionals, which is a failure related to the physical structure and to personal protection equipment, are factors that difficult the adherence to measures to contain bacterial resistance in hospitals.
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