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Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis
OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support (BLS) in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, and to investigate the factors affecting them. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: This study was carried out in a tertiary care...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10481732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37666556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073369 |
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author | Hasnain, Samar Hussan, Jehan Khan, Laiba Muhammad, Shabir Kamal, Khkula Sawaira Hayat, Umair Abbasi, Areej Akhlaq, Muhammad Ahmad, Ali Ahmad, Khizar |
author_facet | Hasnain, Samar Hussan, Jehan Khan, Laiba Muhammad, Shabir Kamal, Khkula Sawaira Hayat, Umair Abbasi, Areej Akhlaq, Muhammad Ahmad, Ali Ahmad, Khizar |
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description | OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support (BLS) in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, and to investigate the factors affecting them. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: This study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. PARTICIPANTS: 201 healthcare professionals were recruited for this study through simple convenience sampling which included house officers (HOs), trained medical officers, postgraduate residents, professors, specialty registrars and nurses. Healthcare professionals who were reluctant to give consent were excluded from the study. RESULTS: Among the chosen participants, only 16.4% had good knowledge whereas 63% had a good attitude towards BLS. Knowledge of participants was found to be positively associated with less time elapsed between the training sessions (p=0.041). On the other hand, factors such as age(p=0.004), designation (p=0.05), number of BLS sessions attended (p=0.012) and the time elapsed since the last BLS session attended (p=0.015), were positively associated with the attitude of healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: The level of knowledge and attitude towards BLS by healthcare professionals was suboptimal. Those individuals who had attended BLS training sessions frequently had better knowledge and attitude as compared with their counterparts. |
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spelling | pubmed-104817322023-09-07 Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis Hasnain, Samar Hussan, Jehan Khan, Laiba Muhammad, Shabir Kamal, Khkula Sawaira Hayat, Umair Abbasi, Areej Akhlaq, Muhammad Ahmad, Ali Ahmad, Khizar BMJ Open Emergency Medicine OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support (BLS) in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, and to investigate the factors affecting them. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: This study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. PARTICIPANTS: 201 healthcare professionals were recruited for this study through simple convenience sampling which included house officers (HOs), trained medical officers, postgraduate residents, professors, specialty registrars and nurses. Healthcare professionals who were reluctant to give consent were excluded from the study. RESULTS: Among the chosen participants, only 16.4% had good knowledge whereas 63% had a good attitude towards BLS. Knowledge of participants was found to be positively associated with less time elapsed between the training sessions (p=0.041). On the other hand, factors such as age(p=0.004), designation (p=0.05), number of BLS sessions attended (p=0.012) and the time elapsed since the last BLS session attended (p=0.015), were positively associated with the attitude of healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: The level of knowledge and attitude towards BLS by healthcare professionals was suboptimal. Those individuals who had attended BLS training sessions frequently had better knowledge and attitude as compared with their counterparts. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10481732/ /pubmed/37666556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073369 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Hasnain, Samar Hussan, Jehan Khan, Laiba Muhammad, Shabir Kamal, Khkula Sawaira Hayat, Umair Abbasi, Areej Akhlaq, Muhammad Ahmad, Ali Ahmad, Khizar Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title | Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title_full | Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title_fullStr | Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title_short | Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
title_sort | factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in khyber teaching hospital, peshawar, pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10481732/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37666556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073369 |
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