The determinants of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country analysis of data from the Wash'Em process for hygiene programme design

J Lamb, AH Thorseth, A MacDougall, W Thorsen… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Background The Wash'Em process was developed to improve the design of handwashing
behaviour change programmes in outbreaks and fragile humanitarian settings, ensuring that …

Trends in handwashing behaviours for COVID-19 prevention: Longitudinal evidence from online surveys in 10 sub-Saharan African countries

B Olapeju, ZM Hendrickson, JG Rosen… - PLOS Global Public …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Handwashing is essential for respiratory virus prevention, but uptake of handwashing in the
context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic remains under-explored. This study examines trends …

[HTML][HTML] Compliance to handwashing during the early phase of COVID-19 epidemic in Uganda: A nationwide cross-sectional survey

R Migisha, BO Amodan, L Bulage… - … and Public Health, 2022 - afenet-journal.net
Introduction: Handwashing is a low-cost, high-impact strategy for limiting the transmission of
COVID-19. We assessed the level of compliance to handwashing and associated factors …

Facilitating hand hygiene in displacement camps during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative assessment of a novel handwashing stand and hygiene promotion …

S White, A Jain, A Bangura, M Farrington, M Mekonen… - Conflict and Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and
outbreak related diseases, including interrupting the transmission of COVID-19. People …

A cross-national and longitudinal analysis of handwashing and its predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in France and Belgium

M Schmitz, R Wollast, A Bigot… - Health Psychology and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Using a longitudinal design, we investigate how the adherence to
handwashing and its underlying socio-psychological predictors evolved over time during the …

Factors affecting hand hygiene practice during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Zimbabwean population: a qualitative study

N Midzi, MJ Mutsaka-Makuvaza, LS Charimari… - BMC Infectious …, 2024 - Springer
Background Practicing hand hygiene is recommended as one of the key preventive
measures for reducing the transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious agents. However …

The trajectory of COVID-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence: findings from 14 countries

Z Szczuka, C Abraham, A Baban, S Brooks… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's engagement in health
behaviors, especially those that protect individuals from SARS-CoV-2 transmission, such as …

Frequency and determinants of COVID-19 prevention behaviours: assessment of large-scale programmes in seven countries

S Bick, S White, AH Thorseth, MND Friedrich, I Gavin… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Pre-existing health and economic challenges mean residents of low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs) are likely to be particularly vulnerable to infectious disease pandemics …

[HTML][HTML] Hand hygiene practices and the risk of human coronavirus infections in a UK community cohort

S Beale, AM Johnson, M Zambon… - Wellcome Open …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Hand hygiene may mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in community settings;
however, empirical evidence is limited. Given reports of similar transmission mechanisms for …

Hand hygiene practices and the risk of human coronavirus infections in a UK community cohort [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

S Beale, AM Johnson, M Zambon… - Wellcome Open …, 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene may mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in community settings;
however, empirical evidence is limited. Given reports of similar transmission mechanisms for …