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 hospi...
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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 | doaj-art-8d0dd4f30bb84fde882f308fa38808b32025-02-02T12:05:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552023-09-0113910.1136/bmjopen-2023-073369Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysisUmair Hayat0Ali Ahmad1Samar Hasnain2Jehan Hussan3Laiba Khan4Shabir Muhammad5Khkula Kamal6 Sawaira7Areej Abbasi8Muhammad Akhlaq9Khizar Ahmad10Student, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USAStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanCommunity Medicine, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanStudent, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, PakistanObjective 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.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9/e073369.full |
| spellingShingle | Umair Hayat Ali Ahmad Samar Hasnain Jehan Hussan Laiba Khan Shabir Muhammad Khkula Kamal Sawaira Areej Abbasi Muhammad Akhlaq Khizar Ahmad Factors affecting knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards basic life support in Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan: a cross-sectional analysis BMJ Open |
| 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 |
| url | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9/e073369.full |
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