The observer effect: can being watched enhance compliance with hand hygiene behaviour? a randomised trial

Patrick Geoffrey Mark Bolton; Ketty Rivas; Veronika Prachar; Michael P. Jones

The observer effect: can being watched enhance compliance with hand hygiene behaviour? a randomised trial

Patrick Geoffrey Mark Bolton, Ketty Rivas, Veronika Prachar, Michael P. Jones

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Abstract

Bateson and Shelby provide evidence that cues of being watched can be a powerful mechanism inducing those observed to change behaviour. We designed and conducted a randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of visual cues of being watched on hand hygiene compliance. This did not demonstrate improved hand hygiene compliance associated with cues of being watched: compliance for wards with a 'cleanse your hands' poster was 87.3% and for wards without the poster it was 84.9%. This difference failed to reach statistical significance (OR=1.73, 95% CI 0.71- to 4.24, p=0.23).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	GS14-GS16
Number of pages	3
Journal	Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
Volume	10
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

cues of being watched
behaviour change methods
hand hygiene compliance

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Bolton, P. G. M., Rivas, K., Prachar, V., & Jones, M. P. (2015). The observer effect: can being watched enhance compliance with hand hygiene behaviour? a randomised trial. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 10(3), GS14-GS16. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/112128157/observer-effect-can-being-watched-enhance-compliance-hand-hygiene-behaviour-randomised-trial

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