Dr OR Pui Lai Peggy
To Investigate the Effectiveness of Environmental Cleaning Protocol in School Settings
[Consultancy Project funded by A. R. Medicom Inc. (Asia) Limited 2021]
Abstract:
Apart from hand hygiene, thorough cleaning and disinfecting can slow the spread of influenza in schools. These infection control interventions require active collaboration among school administrators, teachers and health care professionals. To examine the effectiveness of environmental cleaning protocol in reducing environmental contamination in school settings. Training workshops will be conducted to cleaning staff on how to perform school cleaning according to our protocol and teach them how to use disposable wipes in the intervention group. There is no workshop or disposable wipes will be provided to control group. ANOVA will be performed to obtain further information, pre-post assessment is considered a within-subject variable, and an intervention–control group is used as a between-subject variable.

Abstract:
Apart from hand hygiene, thorough cleaning and disinfecting can slow the spread of influenza in schools. These infection control interventions require active collaboration among school administrators, teachers and health care professionals. To examine the effectiveness of environmental cleaning protocol in reducing environmental contamination in school settings. Training workshops will be conducted to cleaning staff on how to perform school cleaning according to our protocol and teach them how to use disposable wipes in the intervention group. There is no workshop or disposable wipes will be provided to control group. ANOVA will be performed to obtain further information, pre-post assessment is considered a within-subject variable, and an intervention–control group is used as a between-subject variable.
