Knowledge and Practice Towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation among Nursing Students of Nursing Schools in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,2023.
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2023
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: - Cardiac arrest is leading cause of death all over the world. Studies haveshowed that prompt delivery of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation as an important predictor ofsurvival. Knowledge and, practice to simple Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation techniquesensure the survival of the patient till experienced medical help arrives. However, knowledgeand skills gap among health care professionals about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation is aglobal problem. However little known Knowledge and Practice level of health careprofessionals and take appropriate intervention for gaps identified.
Objectives: To assess the knowledge and practice level towards Cardio-pulmonaryResuscitation among nursing students at nursing schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022.
Methods:-Institutional based cross-sectional study design and systematic random samplingtechnique was employed to recruit 417 study participants. Structured and pretestedquestionnaire was used to collect data. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 26. Descriptivestatistic was used to summarize Socio-demographic and health related factors. Odds ratio wasused to identify factor associated with the outcome variable and statically significant wasdeclared at P-value < 0.05.
Results: The study included 395 students were participated in this study. More than one third(37.7%) of the respondents had good knowledge, while one third (33%) of the respondentshad good practice towards Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation. The mean age was 25.33±3.99.Further, female gender (AOR: 1.92, 95% CI: 1.260-2.949 P 0.002), Addis Ababa residence(AOR: 1.73, 95% CI: 1.159-2.730P 0.008), the school from where the students recruited(AOR: 1.57, 95% CI: 1.029-2.391,P 0.037 ), employed students (AOR=1.6; 95% CI (1.045-2.457,P 0.031) were found statistically significantly associated with knowledge level of thestudy respondents while only formal training (AOR: 4.67, 95% CI: 2.093-10.426, P 0.000)was found statistically significantly associated with practice level of the studyrespondents.
Conclusion and recommendation: Despite their importance’s to reverse sudden deathoccasions, significant proportion of the study respondents were found with deficient level ofknowledge and practice towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Gender, occupation,residence, type of school and being employed were found statistically significantly associatedwith knowledge level of the study participants while formal training was the only variablestatistically significantly associated with practice level of study respondents. Therefore, thepolicy maker, researcher, nursing schools should develop effective intervention mechanism toreverse the low level of knowledge and practice towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.