Knowledge, attitude, and associated factors regarding first aid among nursing students in selected governmental teaching hospitals in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,2021.
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2021-12
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background: First aid management is the provision of emergency medical assistance to a person
who has been hurt or becomes suddenly ill, utilizing whatever facilities or resources are available
at the time before regular medical help is impacted. It is critical to guarantee that university
students, including health science students, are adequately trained to deal with such events.
Objective; To assess knowledge, attitude, and association factor regarding first aid among
nursing students in a selected governmental teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
Methods; cross-sectional study design was implemented. Structured self-administered
questionnaires were used on comprehensive nursing students. The collected data were cleaned
and entered into epi data version 4.6.0 and exported to SPSS Ver.26 for analysis. Bivariate and
multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to show the effect of the independent variable
on the dependent variable. The adjusted odds ratio was used to interpret the strength of
association at 95% CI. Statistical significance had been assured by a P value<0.05 in multivariate
analysis.
Result; Out of 217 nursing students 206 completed and returned the questionnaire with a nonresponse
rate
of
5%.
Out
of
them
149
(72.3%)
were
females,
the
mean age of study participants
was 22.2 years. Among study participants, 58.7% of nursing students had good knowledge
however 86.9% of them had a positive attitude. Sex, study year, first aid training, and course
were significantly associated with knowledge of FA on multivariate logistic regression (p≤0.05)
whereas only sex was significantly associated with attitude towards FA (p≤0.05).
Conclusion and recommendation; the overall level of FA knowledge among nursing students
attending a selected teaching hospital was inadequate however they had a positive attitude. There
was a significant difference in knowledge between students attending FA courses and those
without that imply the need for designing future training programs to train nursing students at the
beginning of their nursing career, regular and refresher training should also be implemented.
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First aid, nursing student, knowledge