Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Associated Factors in Ethiopian University Medical Students

Abstract

Purpose: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a lifesaving procedure, performed to preserve patients' life until further management is going to follow. Having basic knowledge of CPR will be a crucial task of medical care providers. This study was done to evaluate knowledge, attitude, and practice and associated factors among clinical year medical students. Participants and Methods:Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation among clinical year medical students in Jimma University. A simple random sampling was used to assess the students. Structured questionnaire of a question about knowledge, attitude and practice of Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was used to collect the data. The collected data was filled on cleared for completeness, analyzed using SPSS windows version 16 and Chi-square and P-value was calculated. All P-values from 0.05 and below were considered significant. Results:The total response rate for this study is 98%. About 93.3% of the respondents had good knowledge about CPR of which, fifth year (36.2%), fourth year (34.1%) and interns (23%) respectively. Among studied participants (80.7%) students were not practiced CPR. Conclusion:Clinical year medical students had a better knowledge, attitude and practice score towards CPR. Overall, however, the majority of students' knowledge, attitude and practices toward to CPR in Jimma University were not sufficient, favorable and safe enough.

Knowledge of and attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation among junior doctors and medical students in Upper Egypt: cross-sectional study

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“…Modifying previous literature, we created a semistructured questionnaire assessing adequate knowledge of CPR (based on the American Heart Association 2015 guidelines) in addition to attitudes towards CPR. The knowledge section contained 20 multiple-choice items that were previously used and validated in similar studies [4,9] while the attitude section included seven items also adapted from a previous study [10]. Knowledge questions were scored as binary variables; correct answers were given 1 point, while incorrect answers and "do not know" responses were given 0 points.…”

Effectiveness Of Structured Training Programme Regarding Adult Basic Life Support On Knowledge Of Nurses` In Zoba Maekel And National Referral Hospitals, Eritrea, 2018.

“…Inadequate level of BLS knowledge amongst nurses was found in studies conducted in United States of America (USA) [8], the United Kingdom (UK) [7], Finland [9] and Ireland [3]. Similar trend was also observed in countries like Bahrain [10], Greece [11], Nigeria [12] South Africa [13] and Ethiopia [14] but to our knowledge no previous study has been conducted in Eritrea to determine the effect of BLS training on the knowledge of nurses.…”

Knowledge and Attitude of Dental Students and Staffs towards Basic life Support(BLS)

“…Lack of professional training of BLS was regarded as the most common hindering factor responsible for poor BLS knowledge by dental students. [18][19][20] Baduni N et al 21 reported score of 9.2 ±1.2 among dental practitioners which is better than the present study where mean score was 6.5. The majority of the study participants of the present study reported that BLS training should be a part of the dental curriculum and raised the point that there was no professional training available.…”