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The barriers and facilitators to hand hygiene practices in Nigeria: A qualitative study: “There are so many barriers the barriers are limitless.” (2023)
Journal Article
Ataiyero, Y., Dyson, J., & Graham, M. (2023). The barriers and facilitators to hand hygiene practices in Nigeria: A qualitative study: “There are so many barriers the barriers are limitless.”. American Journal of Infection Control, 51(3), 295-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.10.013

Background: Health care associated infections (HCAIs) are a global challenge and hand hygiene is the primary measure to reduce these. In developing countries, patients are between 2 and 20 times more likely to acquire an HCAI compared with developed... Read More about The barriers and facilitators to hand hygiene practices in Nigeria: A qualitative study: “There are so many barriers the barriers are limitless.”.

Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review (2018)
Journal Article
Ataiyero, Y., Dyson, J., & Graham, M. (2019). Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review. American Journal of Infection Control, 47(5), 565-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.014

Background: Hand hygiene (HH) is the primary measure in the prevention of healthcare associated infections though from published studies,compliance of healthcare workers to HH guidelines is low. There is currently no review on HH compliance rate in d... Read More about Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review.