Poor Theoretical Knowledge and Self-assessed Ability of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Among In-hospital Healthcare Professionals: a Cross Sectional Study With Questionnaires.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03498508

Enrollment

3044

Registered

2018-04-13

Start date

2013-12-01

Completion date

2018-04-30

Last updated

2018-08-23

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Conditions

In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Keywords

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Knowledge, In-hospital cardiac arrest, Skills

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).

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Factors affecting theorethical knowledge	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.
Factors affecting self-assessed abilities.	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.

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results