Poor Theoretical Knowledge and Self-assessed Ability of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Among In-hospital Healthcare Professionals: a Cross Sectional Study With Questionnaires.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 3,044
- Locations
- 4
- Primary Endpoint
- Factors affecting self-assessed abilities.
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Theoretical knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is the foundation of being able to perform CPR in a cardiac arrest situation. The knowledge and skills received in training is easily lost and after one year the level is equal to pretraining. International studies regarding knowledge of CPR among healthcare professionals, mostly nurses, show poor results. The knowledge of CPR among Swedish healthcare professionals is poorly studied.
The aim of this study was to describe the theoretical knowledge of CPR and self-assessed abilities of performing CPR among healthcare professionals working in four hospitals in Sweden.
Detailed Description
A questionnaire will be handed out containing a knowledge test of nine questions at a basic level. The questionnaire also contains Likert-scales that measures four self-assessed CPR abilities of the respondents (the ability to take leadership, give compressions, to ventilate and to defibrillate).
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Case Only
- Time Perspective
- Cross Sectional
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Healtchare professionals of all professions
- •Working in-hospital with patient contact
- •Present at the time of the survey
Exclusion Criteria
- •Not working with patients
- •Abscent at the time of the survey
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Factors affecting self-assessed abilities.
Time Frame: April 30, 2018
Four self-assessed CPR-skills among 3044 respondents measured on a Likert scale of 1-7 will be measured and described. The skills are the ability to take leadership, give chest compressions, to ventilate and to defibrillate. The dependent variable consisting of a factor score of self-assessed abilities will be analyzed with independent variables such as profession, years in profession, workplace and time since last CPR-training.
Factors affecting theorethical knowledge
Time Frame: April 30, 2018
The number of correct answers of the knowledge questions among 3044 respondents will be described and analyzed. An acceptable amount of correct answers will be seven out of nine, or more, \>80%. The dependent variable number of correct answers will be analyzed with the independent variables profession, years in profession, workplace and time since last CPR-training.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Jennie Silverplats
R.N. PhD candidate
Dalarna County Council, Sweden