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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Ricky
dc.contributor.authorGesser-Edelsburg, Anat
dc.contributor.authorSinghal, Arvind
dc.contributor.authorBenenson, Shmuel
dc.contributor.authorMoses, Allon E.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-02T15:28:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-02T15:28:06Z
dc.date.created2021-01-18T14:02:52Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationEpidemiology and Infection. 148, e259en_US
dc.identifier.issn0950-2688
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2763145
dc.description.abstractPast studies using the positive deviance (PD) approach in the field of infection prevention and control (IPC) have primarily focused on impacts on healthcare-associated infection rates. This research aimed to determine if health professionals who exhibit PD behaviours have distinctive socio-cognitive profiles compared to non-PD professionals, and to examine the impact of a PD intervention on healthcare professionals’ (HPs) behavioural changes in maintaining IPC guidelines. In a cross-sectional study among 135 HPs, respondents first filled out a socio-cognitive characteristics questionnaire, and after 5 months were requested to complete a selfreported behavioural change questionnaire. The main findings indicate that socio-cognitive variables such as external locus of control, perceived threat and social learning were significant predictors of a person exhibiting PD behaviours. Almost 70% of HPs reported behavioural change and creating social networks as a result of the PD intervention in maintaining IPC guidelines, 16.9% of them are a ‘PD boosters’ (a new group of HPs who have adopted the positive practices of PDs that were originally identified, and also added additional practices of their own). Social networks can contribute to internalizing and raising personal accountability even among non-PD professionals, by creating a mind map that makes each person believe they are an important node in the network, regardless of their status and role. Health intervention programmes should purposely make visible and prominent social network connections in the hospital system.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectcharacteristicsen_US
dc.subjectinfection prevention and controlen_US
dc.subjectpositive deviance approachen_US
dc.subjectsociocognitiveen_US
dc.subjectsocial networken_US
dc.titleWhat distinguishes positive deviance (PD) health professionals from their peers and what impact does a PD intervention have on behaviour change: a cross-sectional study of infection control and prevention in three Israeli hospitalsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.source.volume148en_US
dc.source.journalEpidemiology and Infectionen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820002484
dc.identifier.cristin1873306
dc.source.articlenumbere259en_US
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