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Child Care Center Hand Hygiene Programs’ Cost-Effectiveness in Preventing Respiratory Infections by Ernestina Azor-Martinez; Leticia Garcia-Mochon; Monica Lopez-Lacort; Jenna Marie Strizzi; Francisco Javier Muñoz-Vico; Carmen Pilar Jimenez-Lorente; Maria Amparo Fernandez-Campos; Cristina Bueno-Rebollo; Guadalupe del Castillo-Aguas; Josep Vicent Balaguer-Martinez; Francisco Gimenez-Sanchez is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background: We previously demonstrated that a hand hygiene program, including hand sanitizer and educational measures, for day care center (dcc) staff, children, and parents was more effective than a soap-and-water program, with initial observation, in preventing respiratory infections (ris) in children attending dccs. we analyzed the cost-effectiveness of these programs in preventing ris. ## Methods: A cluster, randomized, controlled and open study of 911 children aged 0 to 3 years, attending 24 dccs in almeria. two intervention groups of dcc-families performed educational measures and hand hygiene, one with soap-and-water (swg) and another with hand sanitizer (hsg). the control group (cg) followed usual hand-washing procedures. ri episodes, including symptoms, treatments, medical contacts, complementary analyses, and dcc absenteeism days, were reported by parents. a bayesian cost-effectiveness model was developed. ## Results: There were 5201 ri episodes registered. the adjusted mean societal costs of ris per child per study period were cg: €522.25 (95% confidence interval [ci]: 437.10 to 622.46); hsg: €374.53 (95% ci: 314.90 to 443.07); swg: €494.51 (95% ci: 419.21 to 585.27).

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Author

Ernestina Azor-Martinez; Leticia Garcia-Mochon; Monica Lopez-Lacort; Jenna Marie Strizzi; Francisco Javier Muñoz-Vico; Carmen Pilar Jimenez-Lorente; Maria Amparo Fernandez-Campos; Cristina Bueno-Rebollo; Guadalupe del Castillo-Aguas; Josep Vicent Balaguer-Martinez; Francisco Gimenez-Sanchez

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)