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Self-efficacy of health professionals in hand hygiene practice: is it possible to measure?

2020; Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem; Volume: 73; Issue: suppl 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0873

1984-0446

Eliana Borges Silva Pereira, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Cristiane Martins Cunha, Isabel Craveiro, Denise de Andrade,

Food Safety and Hygiene

To identify in the literature the tools used to measure self-efficacy of health professionals in hand hygiene.Integrative literature review carried out by consulting the databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Europe PubMed Central, and Science Direct using the descriptors Self Efficacy, Hand Hygiene, and Health Personnel.Six articles, all of which with observational design, were selected. It was possible to infer that four studies used validated instruments to measure self-efficacy of health professionals in the conformity with the recommendations for hand hygiene. The other studies used questionnaires that were not validated.Despite the extensive literature on hand hygiene, there is a lack of scientific evidence regarding the use of validated instruments to measure self-efficacy of health professionals in the procedure. The use of properly validated psychometric instruments is useful to guarantee the quality of results in studies.