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CBME curriculum - Impact on knowledge of hand hygiene among medical students: A cross-sectional study

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Background: Practice of hand hygiene is an important measure to reduce the incidence of health care associated infections. Objectives: The current study was undertaken to assess the knowledge of hand hygiene among the under graduate medical students in different years of the course in our institution who follow CBME curriculum, with the aim to suggest improvements for any gaps and ultimately to improve patient care. Material & Methods: This questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted among the Undergraduate medical students from first, second, third and final years at a tertiary health care centre. Universal sampling was done for selecting the study subjects. Hand hygiene knowledge questionnaire for health-care workers by World Health Organisation (WHO) was used for data collection. The responses were divided into three groups based on the score as good, moderate, and low knowledge. Data was entered in Excel sheet and analyzed by using Epi-info software. Results: The response rate for the study was 63%. Majority of the students (69%), have moderate knowledge in hand hygiene, and 27% of them had poor knowledge in hand hygiene. Final year students were better than the previous 3 year students, which showed that when they advance in their medical schooling years, their knowledge improve. Meanwhile, 93% of them had received formal training in hand hygiene within last 3 years and 92% of them routinely use alcohol-based hand rub for hand hygiene. Conclusion: It can be seen that as the year advances in their medical schooling, they acquire better knowledge of hand hygiene. Still the importance of repeated training cannot be underestimated, as witnessed from this survey. Even though they had training of hand hygiene, their knowledge percentage has yet to increase. Annual seminars and workshops can be helpful in this aspect. As medical students are the doctors of tomorrow, they should be thorough in the knowledge of hand hygiene.
Authors: V.P. Reshma, Mahesh C. Baragundi
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7027182038
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