| Hand hygiene | Responses | ||||
| Always | Most of the time | Sometimes | Rarely | Never | |
| Perform hand hygiene immediately on arriving at work. | 64 (22.5) | 75 (26.3) | 81 (28.4) | 51 (17.9) | 14 (4.9) |
| Perform hand hygiene before direct contact with patient. | 43 (15.1) | 61 (21.4) | 90 (31.6) | 64 (22.5) | 27 (9.5) |
| Perform hand hygiene before putting on gloves for performing clinical and invasive procedure. | 107 (37.5) | 103 (36.1) | 59 (20.7) | 12 (4.2) | 4 (1.4) |
| Perform hand hygiene between certain procedures on the same patient where soiling of hands is likely to avoid cross contamination of body sites. | 47 (16.5) | 91 (31.9) | 80 (28.1) | 43 (15.1) | 24 (8.4) |
| Perform hand hygiene after contact with patient. | 125 (43.9) | 89 (31.2) | 51 (17.9) | 16 (5.6) | 4 (1.4) |
| Perform hand hygiene after contact with blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, exudates from wounds and contaminated items. | 149 (52.3) | 92 (32.3) | 42 (14.7) | 2 (0.7) | 0 (0) |
| Perform hand hygiene after touching patient’s surrounding environment (items or surfaces known or likely to be contaminated). | 76 (26.7) | 66 (23.2) | 104 (36.5) | 34 (11.9) | 5 (1.8) |