Question

State your hypothesis from Assignment 1.

I want my hypothesis to be hand washing related. What kind of hypothesis can I use to relate to this topic?

Why is this study important? Describe the rationale for your study, including the identified knowledge gap.  What is it that the health care industry does not know that will become clearer as a result of this study?

I also need a helping hand with getting it started using the questions above. If you can just assist with that I can do the rest.

Thank you

Answer 1

The transmission of bacteria is lower when soap and water is used for hand washing as compared to using only water for hand washing.

Causal hypothesis can be used .

Causal hypothesis predicts the cause and effect relationship between two or more dependent and independent variables in experimental or interventional setting, where independent variable is manipulated by research to examine the effect on the dependent variable.

This study is important especially when dealing with patients who have a communicable disease condition. The patient's relative or visitor may not know the importance of using soap to wash hands, the failure of which can lead to the disease being transmitted and not controlled.

The knowledge gap would be where the patient's relative or visitor may not understand the effect of using soap to wash hands in hospital or home setting to lower the incidence of spread of infection. They may feel washing hands with plain water is enough.

A scientific method can be used to show them how using soap can reduce the amount of bacteria. A GlitterBug solution(to represent soap) should be given to one group of people and the rest should be asked to use plain water to wash hands. Then both groups should be asked to examine their hands under UV light. The group using GlitterBug(soap) will have less areas of bacteria contamination than those who did not use GlitterBug(soap).