Educational technologies for teaching hand hygiene: Systematic review

by Daiane Rubinato Fernandes, Bruna Nogueira dos Santos, Carolina Scoqui Guimarães, Elaine Barros Ferreira, Amanda Salles Margatho, Paula Elaine Diniz dos Reis, Didier Pittet, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira

To gather available scientific evidence on technologies used to teach hand hygiene to professional populations and lays involved in health care in the hospital setting. This systematic review was designed as proposed by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, included studies reporting primary, original, quantitative research findings with no date limit and written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. The search was performed in the following electronic databases: Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, US National Library of Medicine, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and ProQuest. The eligibility criteria were applied independently by two reviewers to select the studies, first by reading the titles and abstracts on the Rayyan platform and then by full text reading of the eligible studies. After a descriptive analysis, the studies were subjected to critical evaluation of their methodological quality using JBI tools.

Seven studies were included, addressing various methods for teaching hand hygiene using different technological resources, such as audiovisual electronic devices, videos, virtual reality, and gamification using tablets and smartphones, in different populations.

Using technologies to teach hand hygiene considerably helps patients, visitors, and relatives in learning the procedures and efficiently improves hand hygiene compliance rates among healthcare professionals, creating evidence-based repetitive learning opportunities for patients and caregivers.

Efectividad del aceite de coco como tratamiento alternativo para la pediculosis capitis en niños: revisión sistemática

Objetivo principal: Analizar la efectividad del tratamiento de la pediculosis capitis con aceite de coco versus la permetrina o ivermectina para la reducción de la infestación en niños escolares. Metodología: Revisión sistemática con análisis interpretativo. Se consultaron bases de datos como PubMed, ScienceDirect, Epistemonikos, entre otros. Se incluyeron documentos publicados entre 2011 y 2021 derivados de la cadena de búsqueda: aceite de coco AND pediculosis capitis AND efectividad en español e inglés. Resultados principales: Después de aplicar criterios de exclusión y eliminación, se analizaron 10 documentos, que incluían ensayos comunitarios, estudios preclínicos de laboratorio y revisiones sistemáticas, los cuales proponen el aceite de coco como un tratamiento alternativo eficaz contra la pediculosis. Conclusión principal: Aunado a los reportes de alta efectividad de tratamiento, no se reportan efectos adversos y se sugiere el uso de gorra de baño así como un peinado vigoroso con una lendrera para aumentar la efectividad.