Exploring Care Home Workers’ Views on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Hand Hygiene Training: A Realist Interview Study

Table 3

Supporting quotes on hand hygiene in care homes.

Hand hygiene practice	(i) A lot of people probably do less than that (30 seconds). So it’s probably do, probably do for 10 seconds. (P5)
Hand hygiene training	(i) Okay so to be honest at the beginning of my career which was like nine/ten years ago now there wasn’t really much hand hygiene training at all….It wasn’t so much as you know the importance of hand hygiene as it is now because obviously with the impact of COVID it’s become a massive topic and it’s become a massive training subject. (P6); (ii) I don’t think I’ve ever thought much into hand hygiene in that sort of a sense, it’s more like a tick-box thing for a lot of people, but I think it’s definitely a good thing and implementing it into care homes is definitely another thing because like everything is in the hospitals. (P22)
Hand hygiene monitoring	(i) If we think someone’s not, we will hover around to-because when you’re stood over them, they know you’re watching them, so, you hover around. (P1); (ii) Every weekend we have a form that we have to fill in and we can go around and like watch the staff wash their hands and if they’re doing it wrong basically-I’m not saying they’re doing it wrong but if they do it, just correct them a little bit and just say this is how you do it… (P8)