Assessment of Knowledge and Practices of University Students of Pediatrics Basic Life Support | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 116, Volume 93, Issue 1, October 2023, Pages 7679-7684 PDF (768.65 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.328642 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Pediatric cardiac arrest in the out-of-hospital setting is a traumatic event for family, friends, classmates, and school personnel. Children who receive immediate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation showed improved survival dramatically. Aim: to improve the baseline knowledge and practice of pediatric basic life support among university students who will be responsible for children during their work. Subjects and methods: This is a cross sectional study of representative sample of students in the first year from the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Education at Suez Canal University. After and before efficacy study of training program assessing knowledge and practice of Pediatric Basic Life Support (PBLS) was done through online questionnaire to prevent grouping during the time of COVID19 pandemic. Results: The main outcome of the study was that the overall knowledge score increased significantly after the workshop 6.07±1.7 comparing with before the workshop 4.67±1.6 (P <0.001) and the overall practice score increased significantly after the workshop 5.65±1.7 comparing with before the workshop 3.97±1.5 proving that the web-based learning and video-based self-learning are successful in improving the knowledge and practice of the trainee. Conclusion:Overall, there was a significantly improvement of all participants regarding the knowledge and practice of the pediatric life support (PBLS). | ||
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