Nurses’ preferences for interventions to improve infection prevention and control behaviors based on systems engineering initiative to patient safety model: a discrete choice experiment

Table 1 Intervention attributes and levels

Attribute	Definition	Level
Person	Knowledge and attitude of nurses	Better IPC knowledge and awareness training
Person	Knowledge and attitude of nurses	No measure
Organization	Activities of IPC organization and management	IPC organization improvement (strengthen leaders’ attention and cultivate a safe atmosphere about IPC)
Organization	Activities of IPC organization and management	No measure
Tools and technology	Quality and comfort of protective equipment and the impact of protective equipment use on nurses	Improvement of the availability and comfort of protective equipment
Tools and technology		No measure
Tasks	The workload of IPC tasks and conflicts with other tasks	IPC workflow improvement
		Reduced workload
		No measure
Internal environment	The physical environment of the department where nurses work and perform IPC behaviors	Physical environment improvement (department layout, number and location of hand hygiene facilities, etc.)
Internal environment		No measure
External environment	Influence factors outside the organization and IPC-related policies	External environment improvement (medical policies support and social positive media)
External environment		No measure

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