The purposes of this descriptive research were a study on 1) The compliance with hand washing guideline and 2) The relationship between predisposing,enabling,reinforcing factors and hand washing behavior in the infection control among nurses.
The 34 research subjects consisted of all nurses of Huai Khat Hospital.The data were collected using the guestionnaire and aknowladge test originated by the researcher adated from hand washing step by Somwong Danchaiwichit.The Knowledge questionnaire were tested for internal consistency using Kuder Richarson and Crcnbach’s alpha for the attitude questionnaire concerning enabling and reinforcing factor,and behavior assessment.The data were analyzed using description statistics and independent Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.It was found that:
1)Invassive procedures on hand washing were at the high level.
2)Significant positive correlation was found between the predisposing factors,enabling factors,reinforcihg factors and hand washing behavior.