The aim of this randomized clinical trial is evaluating family presence influencing nosocomial infections in Burn Intensive Care Unitburn intensive care unit is Zareh hospital in Sari.Inclusion Criteria: all alert patients over 18 yrs, with their hospitalization passing 48 h and about the patient's attendant, being over 18 yrs and the attendant not suffering from communicable diseases through Eireborn (measles, chicken pox and etc.).
Exclusion Criteria: the incidence of cases such as addiction, respiratory distress, intubation, the wound changing color toward getting infected, the patient's discharge or death and for the attendants ,not cooperating about the ward regulations and infection control precautions and afflicted with any communicable disease during the project implementation (especially via Eireborn).
Sample: 360 patients being randomly selected and put in one of the test and control groups (each with 180 subjects).
In the 3rd reception day, some training is presented by the researcher encompassing the ward regulations, infection control standard precautions in particular washing hands, as the most critical method to control nosocomial infection and preventing the spread of antimicrobial resistance .In the test group, the patient's desired attendant's 1 h presence is implemented in clinic for 5 consecutive days observing the trained cases from the 4th to the 8th days .In the control group , no presence of the attendant (the ward routine )is implemented .Nosocomial infection level in the patients is recorded from the 5th to the 15th ICU hospitalization days and in case of the patient being transferred to another ward from the ICU ,it is recorded for 7 days.
The data on nosocomial infection symptoms and signs are collected using Nosocomial National Infection System (NNIS) designed questionnaire for the major nosocomial infections diagnosis (pneumonia, UTI, intravenous catheters, surgical site infection and burn) from the 4th to the 15th days and if the patient is eligible for one of the standard criteria for each of the main infections, the related diagnostic code is extracted from NNIS table and recorded. All drugs (albumin and crystalloid), antibiotics, tests, cultures result (blood, urine, sputum, central catheters) and their antibiograms and surgery times during the project are recorded.