In-hospital Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes and Their Experience in Performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

Completed

• Conditions: In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

• Registration Number: NCT04321213
• Lead Sponsor: Dalarna County Council, Sweden

Brief Summary

Attitudes among healthcare professionals can possibly affect the treatment given in cardiac arrest situations. The attitudes of healthcare professionals towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been poorly studied. The few existing previous international results shows attitudes reported by nurses as hesitation, fear of defibrillation, anxiety and fear of harming the patient.

The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes towards performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation among in-hospital healthcare professionals, furthermore to assess if experience in performing CPR has an effect on attitudes.

Detailed Description

Data will be collected using questionnaires containing attitude questions. The questionnaires contains questions regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR (6 questions), previous experience in performing CPR (time since last performance and number of performances) and attitudes during the latest CPR performance (8 questions). All attitude questions are constructed as multiple choice questions.

Results regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR and attitudes during the latest CPR performance will be presented descriptively. To analyse a possible effect of time since CPR performance and number of CPR performances on attitudes during the latest CPR performance logistic regression will be used. Response variables will be "yes" or "no" on 8 specific attitude questions with predictors consisting of time since CPR performance (0-3 months ago, 4-23 months ago and \>24 months) and number of CPR performances (1-3 times, 4-10 times and \>10 times).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2016-12-30
• Study Completion: 2016-12-30
• Study First Submitted: 2020-02-21
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-03-23
• Study First Posted: 2020-03-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-25
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3639

Inclusion Criteria

• In-hospital healthcare professionals.
• Patient contact

Exclusion Criteria

• Absent during the survey
• Parental leave
• Leave of absence
• Sick leave.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In-hospital healthcare professionals' experience in performing CPR.	one month	Two questions regarding experience in performing CPR will be presented descriptively. Number of respondents in each response category concerning number of previous CPR performances and time since last CPR performance will be presented.
In-hospital healthcare professionals' attitudes towards CPR.	one month	14 questions regarding attitudes towards performing CPR will be presented descriptively. Number of respondents answering "yes", "no" and "I don´t know" to each attitude question will be presented.
Does experience in performing CPR have an effect on attitudes towards CPR	two months	The effect of previous experience in CPR on attitudes during a cardiac arrest situation will be analysed using binary logistic regression. Each of the eight questions concerning attitudes during a cardiac arrest situation will serve as a dependent variable with "yes" as the response. Independent variables consists of number of previous CPR performances, time since last CPR performance and workplace. Independent variables associated with the dependent variable at a level of p \<0.1 will be included in a multiple model. The model will be adjusted for profession and number of years in profession.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Region of Västmanland; 🇸🇪 Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden

Region of Dalarna; 🇸🇪 Mora, Sweden