A Cross Sectional Study on Knowledge and Practice Towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Among Health Professionals Working at Mekelle University, Mekelle Ethiopia.

Abstract

Background: - Quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a procedure needs to be done to save life of cardiac arrest victim. It is significant for health professionals to successfully perform such lifesaving skills that they rarely perform. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and skill towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation among health professionals working at Ayder comprehensive specialized hospital. Method: - Institution-based cross sectional-study design was applied among different level of health care provider at Ayder comprehensive specialized hospital. SPSS version 20 used for data analysis and Chi-Square test applied to determine the association between different variables. Result: - Two hundred forty-five participants were originally engaged in this study over a month with a response rate of 100%. One hundred sixty-nine (68.98%) were nurses by profession and 169 (68.9%) of the participants had work experience of fewer than five years. When the service year of the participants increases, the practice adherence to the current guideline is very apart from the participant who had less years of experience which is statically significant (chi-square = 20.888, P = 0.0004). Conclusions: - Our result demonstrates that health professionals who works at Ayder comprehensive specialized hospital had inadequate knowledge and practice for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Health Professionals’ knowledge and practice on basic life support and its predicting factors in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In this meta-analysis, a total 3849 sample size was used to estimate the overall prevalence of Health professional's Knowledge and practice of resuscitation in Ethiopia. The 11 studies were conducted at different regions of Ethiopia; Amhara region 5 studies [18,[35][36][37][38], 1 South Nation Nationality and People (SNNP) [39], 2 in Addis Ababa [40,41], 1 in Harar [14], and 1 in Tigray [42].…”