Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs)

Description

This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.

Conditions

Pathogen Transmission, Patient Participation, Aging

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This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.

Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs): A Technology-based Self-management Intervention to Improve Patient Hand Hygiene and Reduce Hand Contamination Among Older Adults

Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs)

Condition
Pathogen Transmission
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Cleveland

Lous Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106

Cleveland

MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44109

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. \> 65 years of age,
  • 2. Admitted to a medical-surgical unit,
  • 3. Expected to be hospitalized for more than 24 hours,
  • 4. Written informed consent within 24-48 hours of admission, and
  • 5. Speak and read English
  • 6. Physical capacity to use the CHAMPs system
  • 7. Sufficient hearing and seeing capacity to indicate understanding and use of the intervention.
  • 1. terminal illness that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
  • 2. behavior disorder
  • 3. violent behavior
  • 4. physical or cognitive impairments that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
  • 5. limiting understanding and use of CHAMPs
  • 6. undergoing radiation or chemotherapy that prohibit interaction with CHAMPs
  • 7. skin disorders or
  • 8. broken skin on hands.

Ages Eligible for Study

65 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Case Western Reserve University,

Shanina C Knighton, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Case Western Reserve University

Study Record Dates

2026-10-31