Hand Hygiene Behavior Survey of 1,722 Healthcare Workers in a Chinese Hospital

1,722 healthcare workers from a Chinese tertiary hospital participated in a cross-sectional survey on hand hygiene behavior. The dataset, created by Wenjing Jiang and last updated in May 2026, contains questionnaire responses based on the COM-B (capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior) framework. Structural equation modeling results, including model fit indices and path coefficients, are presented to explain the drivers of hand hygiene compliance.

Use Cases

• Validate the COM-B behavioral framework for hand hygiene based on survey data from healthcare workers.
• Analyze the mediating pathways between capability, opportunity, and motivation on behavior based on structural equation modeling results.
• Investigate the 'know-do' gap in infection prevention based on self-reported behavioral data.
• Compare direct and indirect effects of psychological constructs on a specific health behavior based on quantified path coefficients.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a substantial sample of 1,722 healthcare worker respondents.
• Data collection employed validated questionnaires structured around the established COM-B theoretical framework.
• Analysis includes specific model fit statistics (CFI=0.917, TLI=0.903, RMSEA=0.115) and path coefficients (e.g., β=0.434 for motivation).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which limits suitability assessment and requires field semantics to be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single tertiary hospital in China, which may limit generalizability to other geographic or healthcare settings.
• The dataset is very small (24.3 KB), indicating limited scope, likely containing summary results rather than raw survey responses.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Wenjing Jiang

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using questionnaires administered to hospital staff.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:56:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A tertiary hospital in China.