Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing in Promoting Hand Hygiene of Nursing Personnel

Background: motivational interviewing (m.i.) is an option formodifying an individual’s behavior. it is used as an educationalmethod in recent years. the aim of our study was to indicate whetheror not education, using lecture alone and lecture with m.i., would affectthe performance of nursing personnel regarding their hand hygiene. if so,which of these two methods were most effective for this purpose?methods: this was an interventional study conducted in bahramipediatric hospital in tehran. the study population consisted of allnursing personnel in the hospital. considering the responsibilities ofdifferent nurses and their educational status, we divided them intothree classes. the participants of each class were randomly assignedto either the control or experiment groups training lecture aloneor lecture with m.i., respectively. we used independent?t, paired?t,mann?whitney u and wilcoxon signed ranks tests for analysis.results: education using lecture alone improved the hand hygieneperformance of nursing personnel only in the first and third classes(p = 0.002 and p = 0.001, respectively). similarly, lecture combinedwith m.i. improved the hand hygiene performance of personnel in thefirst and third classes (p < 0.001 and p = 0.004, respectively). the lattermethod was more effective compared to lecture alone in the first andthird classes (p < 0.001 and p = 0.013, respectively).conclusions: education based on lecturing improves hand hygieneperformance among nursing personnel. it will be more effective ifcombined with m.i.