Prevalence and associated psychosocial factors of increased hand hygiene practice during the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic: Findings and prevention implications from a national survey in Taiwan

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 604-612

  Miao, Yen Yu ^a   Huang, Jiun Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hand hygiene practice; Health beliefs; Pandemic influenza A H1N1; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVEY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAND; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

TAIWAN;

AVES;

EID: 84862789936     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.02966.x     Document Type: Article

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