Recruiting

Hand Hygiene

Sponsor:

VA Office of Research and Development

Code:

NCT07607145

Conditions

Hand Hygiene Compliance

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Tailored Hand Hygiene Bundle

Non-Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer

Study Details

Brief summary:

Mental health settings are particularly vulnerable to outbreaks and transmission due to infectious pathogens like norovirus. This occurs since access to soap and water (sinks) is limited for safety reasons and alcohol hand rub is not available outside patient rooms because of concerns for ingestion and fire. Thus, novel hand hygiene improvement interventions are needed in mental health settings including new hand hygiene bundles tailored to VHA mental health settings and novel alcohol-free hand rubs that are safe for installation and use in mental health settings. Non-alcohol hand rub has been approved and is currently used in some VAs, but isn't currently a standard VA-wide practice. These products can expand access to hand hygiene in locations where alcohol-based products are not allowed.

Conditions

Hand Hygiene Compliance

Study ID

NCT07607145

Start date

Jun 1, 2026

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Sep 30, 2030

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • VA mental health care workers on inpatient mental health units
  • Quality improvement staff including infection control

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Outpatient care settings

Study Design

Enrollment

4 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Sequential

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Hand Hygiene Bundle Implementation

Adapt and develop a HH bundle for mental health care settings with evidenced-based best practices. Evaluate whether the tailored HH bundle improves HH compliance compared to the VHA standard bundle.

experimental: Non-Alcohol Based Hand Rub Implementation

Evaluate whether implementation of non-alcohol based hand sanitizer improves hand hygiene compliance compared to the tailored hand hygiene bundle.

Interventions

Tailored Hand Hygiene Bundle

Adapt and develop a hand hygiene bundle for mental health care settings with evidence-based best practices. Disseminate the hand hygiene bundle.

Non-Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer

Install non-alcohol based hand sanitizer dispensers

Primary outcome measure

  • Hand Hygiene Compliance [ Time Frame: 3 years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Eli N Perencevich, MD MS BS

(319) 338-0581eli.perencevich@va.gov

Stacey M Hockett Sherlock, MA BA

(319) 338-0581Stacey.HockettSherlock@va.gov

Locations

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL

Recruiting

Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141-3030

Contacts

Geneva Wilson, PhD

708-202-8387geneva.wilson2@va.gov

Charlesnika Evans

7082024868charlesnika.evans@va.gov

Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA

Recruiting

Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52246-2292

Contacts

Eli N Perencevich, MD MS BS

(319) 338-0581eli.perencevich@va.gov

Principal Investigator:

Eli N. Perencevich, MD MS BS

Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN

Recruiting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55417-2309

Contacts

Jonathan Alpern, MD

612-467-4183jonathan.alpern@va.gov

William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI

Recruiting

Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705-2254

Contacts

Marin Schweizer-Looby, PhD

608-256-1901marin.schweizer-looby@va.gov

More Information

Sponsor

VA Office of Research and Development

Last update posted

Aug 31, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • Infection Control (IC)
  • Hospital-associated infections (HAI)
  • Hand Hygiene (HH)
  • Compliance
  • Health Care Workers (HCWs)

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by VA Office of Research and Development on 2026-08-31.