Assessment and Comparison of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Undergraduate Medical and Nursing Students Regarding Training of Basic Life Support
Abstract
Objectives :To assess and compare Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Medical and Nursing Students regarding BLS. Materials and Methods: Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting& Duration :This study was done at Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences, Lahore in a period of 3 months. Inclusion Criteria: Students from all years of MBBS and BS Nursing were taken as subjects .Data Collection and Analysis: Participants satisfying inclusion criteria were requested to fill out a self-structured pre tested questionnaire after informed consent. Data was analyzed using SPSSv.21. Results : There were 330 participants from MBBS and BS Nursing (50 from each class of MBBS and 20 from each class of BS Nursing). The age of participants ranged from 18 to 30 (Figure-I). Only 250 subjects had heard about BLS. Out of 330 participants only 204 had good knowledge about BLS (Table-2) and 126 had poor knowledge of BLS where score of higher than 3 out of 7 was considered as good. Knowledge of Medical and Nursing Students was compared and the p-value came out to be 0.088, which was considered insignificant. Only 34.5% of the participants had learned BLS by training and only 13.3% of the participants (Table-3) had practically done BLS. Most of the people gave no reason for not attending a training session for BLS
Conclusion:It was concluded that medical and nursing students had satisfactory knowledge of BLS and more attention was needed towards this important life-saving skill.
Keywords:
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Medical, Undergraduate, Knowledge, Attitude, Practices , Nursing
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