Table 5 Input distribution data for glove use and glove protection.
Variable | Glove use | Glove protection | |||||
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Pre‐intervention | Post‐intervention | ||||||
Task | Yes† | No | Yes | No | Mean‡ | Min§ | Max¶ |
Preparation | 84% | 16% | – | – | 0.93 | 0.74 | 0.99 |
Administering | 89% | 11% | 81% | 19% | 0.90* | 0.75 | 0.99 |
Washing patients | 67% | 33% | 30% | 70% | 0.83 | 0.40 | 0.97 |
Changing bed sheets | 67% | 33% | 36% | 64% | 0.52 | 0.07 | 0.80 |
Handling urine | 82% | 18% | 90% | 10% | 0.46 | 0.09 | 0.91 |
Cleaning | 35% | 65% | 59% | 41% | 0.92 | 0.81 | 0.98 |
*Bold values in the table indicate imputed data.
†Percentage of nurses in the study wearing gloves at this task.
‡Most likely value for glove protection in this case the mean was chosen.
§Minimum value for the protection of gloves.
¶Maximum value for the protection of gloves.