Factors Influencing Adherence to Standard Precautions Scale: A psychometric validation

Bouchoucha, Stéphane L.; Moore, Kathleen A.

Health-care institutions are required to mandate the use of SP, but [Correction added on November 9, 2018 after first online publication: 'Minichov et al. (2016) ' has been corrected to 'Michinov et al. (2016) ' in abstract section and in the reference list.] despite policies and procedures to enforce their use, health-care workers' adherence to SP remains poor. Adherence to SP ranges from a low of 19.5% in the years immediately following their introduction (Kelen et al., 1990) , to the most recent figures of 57.4 and 69.4% among nurses in Hong Kong and Brazil, respectively (Lam, 2014; Pereira, Lam, Chan, Malaguti-Toffano, & Gir, 2015) , to 81% of staff whom Tait, Voepel-Lewis, Tuttle, and Malviya (2000) surveyed working with patients known to be HIV positive/hepatitis B virus positive. Adherence figures also vary with respect to specific aspects of SP, such as handwashing (19%) (Askarian, McLaws, & Meylan, 2007) and the use of protective eyewear (52%) (Madan, Rentz, Wahle, & Flint, 2001) and gloves for cannulation (54%) (Zhang, Lee, & Knott, 2014) .