Knowledge and attitudes of students of the Faculty of health studies about cardiopulmonary resuscitation

UVOD: Kardiopulmonalna reanimacija označava niz intervencija koje se obavljaju kako bi se održao ljudski život te ponovno pokrenulo ljudsko srce. Među najučestalijim zdravstvenim poteškoćama nalazi se srčani zastoj te je zbog toga jako važno rano započinjanje i znanje o izvođenju kardiopulmonalne reanimacije i uporabi automatskog vanjskog defibrilatora. Od velike je važnosti edukacija zdravstvenih i nezdravstvenih djelatnika kako bi se pružila visoka stopa preživljenja. CILJ: Glavni cilj provedenog istraživanja bio procijeniti znanje i stavove o kardiopulmonalnoj reanimaciji kod redovnih studenata preddiplomskih studija Fakulteta zdravstvenih studija Sveučilišta u Rijeci. ISPITANICI I METODE: Anketu je ispunilo 114 studenata preddiplomskih studija sestrinstva, fizioterapije, primaljstva i radiološke tehnologije. Ispitanicima je proslijeđena poveznica s anketnim upitnikom napravljenim u programu Google Forms. Anketa se sastojala od 3 dijela, prvi dio sadrži 10 pitanja o znanju o kardiopulmonalnoj reanimaciji, drugi dio sadrži 10 tvrdnji o stavovima studenata te treći dio sadrži socijaldemokratske podatke. REZULTATI: Prema specifičnim ciljevima rezultati ukazuju da razlike u prosječnoj razini znanja te razlike u prosječnom rezultatu stavova među provedenim studijskim programima nisu statistički značajne, odnosno hipoteza 1 i hipoteza 2 se odbacuju, p>0,05. Rezultati ovog istraživanja ukazuju da je većina ispitanika (71,1%) odgovorilo točno na više od 50% pitanja što ukazuje na dosta visoku razinu znanja što je odraz efikasne edukacije studenata svih smjerova Fakulteta zdravstvenih studija. ZAKLJUČAK: Prema rezultatima istraživanja zapaža se kvalitetna i dostatna razina znanja iz hitne medicine što vrlo važno u radu svih zdravstvenih djelatnika kako bi se prevenirao srčani zastoj te na vrijeme krenulo s oživljavanjem. Zaključuje se da redovni studenti svih smjerova Fakulteta zdravstvenih studija dijele pozitivne stavove o kardiopulmonalnoj reanimaciji.INTRODUCTION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation refers to a series of interventions that are performed to maintain human life and restart the human heart. Cardiac arrest is among the most common health problems, which is why early initiation and knowledge of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automatic external defibrillator are very important. The education of health and non-health workers is of great importance in order to provide a high survival rate. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of the conducted research was to assess knowledge and attitudes about cardiopulmonary resuscitation among full-time undergraduate students of the Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka. RESPONDENTS AND METHODS: The survey was completed by 114 undergraduate students of nursing, physiotherapy, midwifery and radiological technology. Respondents were forwarded a link to a survey questionnaire created in the Google Forms program. The survey consisted of 3 parts, the first part contains 10 questions about knowledge about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the second part contains 10 statements about students' attitudes and the third part contains social democratic data. RESULTS: According to the specific objectives, the results indicate that the differences in the average level of knowledge and the differences in the average score of attitudes among the conducted study programs are not statistically significant, that is, hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 are rejected, p>0.05. The results of this research indicate that the majority of respondents (71.1%) answered more than 50% of the questions correctly, which indicates a fairly high level of knowledge, which is a reflection of the efficient education of students of all majors at the Faculty of Health Studies. CONCLUSION: According to the results of the research, there is a high quality and sufficient amount of knowledge in emergency medicine, which is very important in the work of all healthcare professionals in order to prevent cardiac arrest and start resuscitation in time. It is concluded that regular students of all majors of the Faculty of Health Studies share positive attitudes about cardiopulmonary resuscitation