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Table 4 aAssociation between microbiological contamination of clinicians’ mobile phones and socio-demographic factors, workload, and mobile phone hygiene practices among 198 clinicians in ICUs, PICUs, and NCUs in public secondary care hospitals in Kuwait, 2013

From: Microbiological contamination of mobile phones of clinicians in intensive care units and neonatal care units in public hospitals in Kuwait

  

Total

Contamination

  

n

Prevalence %

Unadjusted Odds Ratio

95% CI

p

Hospitalb

    

0.126

 

Al-Adan

49

61.2

0.36

[0.12−1.11]

 
 

Al-Farwaniya

43

81.4

0.99

[0.29−3.43]

 
 

Al-Jahra

25

84.0

1.19

[0.28−5.06]

 
 

Al-Sabah

22

63.6

0.40

[0.11−1.46]

 
 

Mubarak Al-Kabeer

24

70.8

0.55

[0.15−2.05]

 
 

Maternity

27

81.5

1

Reference

 

Unit

    

0.213

 

ICU

61

72.1

0.66

[0.31−1.41]

 
 

PICU

44

65.9

0.50

[0.22−1.11]

 
 

NCU

93

79.6

1

Reference

 

Gender

    

0.276

 

Male

151

76.2

1.50

[.73−3.07]

 
 

Female

47

68.1

1

Reference

 

Age

181

 

1.00

[0.96−1.04]

0.982

Nationality

    

0.167

 

Kuwaiti

30

80.0

2.40

[0.80−7.21]

 
 

Non-Kuwaiti: Arab

128

76.6

1.96

[0.92−4.19]

 
 

Non-Kuwaiti: non-Arab

40

62.5

1

Reference

 

Rank

    

0.619

 

Consultant/senior specialist/specialist/senior registrar

66

77.3

0.85

[0.212−3.413]

 
 

Registrar

117

71.8

0.64

[0.17−2.40]

 
 

Assistant registrar/trainee

15

80.0

1

Reference

 

Number of patients examined per day

    

0.569

 

Less than 10 patients

124

71.8

0.68

[0.21−2.19]

 
 

10 to 15 patients

40

75.0

0.80

[0.22−2.98]

 
 

15 to 20 patients

15

86.7

1.73

[0.27−11.05]

 
 

More than 20 patients

19

78.9

1

Reference

 

Answering mobile phone calls inside ICU, PICU or NCU

    

0.387

 

Never

12

58.3

0.56

[0.15−2.11]

 
 

Sometimes

143

76.2

1.28

[0.59−2.78]

 
 

Always

42

71.4

1

Reference

 

Ever disinfected mobile phone

    

0.033

 

No

133

78.9

2.05

[1.06−3.96]

 
 

Yes

65

64.6

1

Reference

 

Believe mobile phones play role in spread of infection

    

0.607

 

No

71

71.8

0.84

[0.44−1.62]

 
 

Yes

125

75.2

1

Reference

 

Support banning mobile phones use in ICUs, PICUs or NCUs

    

0.291

 

No

138

71.7

0.68

[0.32−1.4]

 
 

Yes

57

78.9

1

Reference

 
  1. aICUs: intensive care units; PICUs: pediatric intensive care units; NCUs: neonatal care units
  2. bWe swabbed 8 mobile phones from 8 clinicians in Al-Amiri hospital; all of them were positive for contamination