Effekten av tranbärsjuice och personalutbildning i vårdhygien för att förebygga urinvägsinfektioner
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Engelsk titel: The effect of cranberry juice and staff education in hygiene care for preventing urinary tract
infections
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Författare:
Wadensten B
;
Andersson C
;
Aflarenko M
;
Hägglund D
Email: doris.hagglund@oru.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 35
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 09073984
Sammanfattning
Cranberry juice is often given to elderly persons in nursing homes to prevent urinary tract infections; still there is little evidence to support its
use. Basic hygiene routines are important for preventing urinary tract infections. The aim of this study was to investigate whether cranberry juice
and staff education in hygiene care can prevent symptomatic urinary tract infections among elderly persons living in nursing homes. A quasiexperimental
study with three intervention groups and one control group was conducted involving 257 elderly women and men. A total of 48
symptomatic urinary tract infections were documented over the six months of the study: 21 (43.7%) in the cranberry group, 11 (22.9%) in the
control group, 9 (18.7%) in the cranberry/hygiene care group and 7 (14.5%) in the hygiene care group. These between-group differences were
not statistic significant. Hence, our study showed no preventive effect from cranberry juice, alone or in combination with staff education in hygiene
care, on the incidence of symptomatic urinary tract infections. However, more and better research with larger randomised trials or cranberry
capsules is needed to study its potential use to prevent urinary tract infections in elderly persons.