Healthy volunteers (nurses working full-time in surgical wards)
Conditions
Interventions
Study 1 Group A: Water-less method Group B: Two-stage method [hand-washing with soap] and [disinfection with alcohol] are performed in water-less method, and [hand-washing with scrubbing agent] and
Sponsors
Department of Plastic Surgery, Wound Repair and Generation, Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Nurses providing the written informed consent for participating in this study 2. Nurses working full-time in surgical wards 3. Nurses engaging in operation of wound classification Class I or II for around 1 hour or more than 1hour (upper limit 4 hours) 4. Nurses who use chlorhexidine alone as a scrub agent or disinfectant in ordinary hand-washing before operation 5. Nurses are >=20 years of age at the time of informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Nurses with severe skin rash in the hand and fingers (in score 3 and 4 in Atopic dermatitis guideline 2018 below) 2. Nurses engaging in activities which causes rough hands and injury exceeding ordinary duties or house works in daily life 3. Nurses using hand cream containing steroid 4. Nurses with skin diseases in forearms, hands and fingers. 5. Nurses who recently injure a washing part and who use oral medicines or external preparations for treatment of burn injury, ulcer, bleeding, connective tissue disease and systemic metabolic disease 6. Nurses medicated with anti-coagulant, anti-platelet or immunosuppressant including steroids 7. Nurses using drugs interfering this study by the judgment of their own family doctor
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Comparison of bacterium number decreasing rate between immediately after washing and after surgery duties in water-less method user group | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Water content of stratum corneum 2. Score for Rough hands 3.Score for impression of use | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactKumiko Hayashi
Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine Department of Plastic Surgery, Wound Repair and Generation
Outcome results
None listed