Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice and Associated Factors In Performing CPR among Medical Interns of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital And Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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2020-10
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Addis Abeba University
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Background
Cardiopulmonary arrest is a major public health problem. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is
an important life-saving technique, consisting of chest compression and rescue breathing and used
to treat victims of cardiopulmonary arrest by helping to maintain oxygenated blood circulation in
the body. The chance of survival after cardiopulmonary arrest may be increased with quality CPR
that mainly depends on the sufficiency of the knowledge, attitude and skill/practice of health
professionals who deliver the CPR. Therefore assessing the knowledge attitude and practice and
associated factors among medical interns of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital and Yekatit 12
Hospital Medical College in performing CPR is important as they manage many trauma and
critically ill patients.
Methods: A cross sectional study conducted from March 2020 to July 2020, among 169 medical
interns of TASH and 49 medical interns of YHMC. Structured questionnaires of 2020 American
health association guidelines for CPR and basic life support (BLS) Practice Test of National
Health Care Provider Solutions of 28 questions were used to assess the knowledge, attitude and
practice and associated factors in performing CPR among study participants who fulfilled the
inclusion criteria.
Results: The mean for knowledge score of TASH and YHMC medical interns were 6.36 + 1.77
(49.00%) and 6.51 + 1.72 (49.83%) respectively whereas the mean for the practice score of
TASH medical interns was 5.49 + 1.57 (55.10%) while that of YHMC medical interns was 4.86 +
1.55 (47.91%).This is statistically not significant as P-value is greater than 0.05. Factors like
institutions where they were training internship, having formal lectures, role plays, practices and
learning from guidelines, MICU/PICU/ER attachments, age & sex of the study participants, had
significant association with CPR practice among medical interns in the study area.
Conclusions: This study identified that the knowledge and practice score of CPR which is poor in
both schools’ medical interns and significantly associated with lectures, role plays, practices
guidelines, MICU/PICU/ER attachments and age and sex, even though they have positive and
good attitude towards it. Structured CPR training should be part of the curriculum to solve this
issue.
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Cardiac arrest, BLS, CPR, Medical intern