In-hospital Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes and Their Experience in Performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

Dalarna County Council, Sweden

Status: Completed

Conditions: In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04321213

2006/201/2 (part 2)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Attitudes among healthcare professionals can possibly affect the treatment given in cardiac arrest situations. The attitudes of healthcare professionals towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been poorly studied. The few existing previous international results shows attitudes reported by nurses as hesitation, fear of defibrillation, anxiety and fear of harming the patient.

The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes towards performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation among in-hospital healthcare professionals, furthermore to assess if experience in performing CPR has an effect on attitudes.

Full description

Data will be collected using questionnaires containing attitude questions. The questionnaires contains questions regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR (6 questions), previous experience in performing CPR (time since last performance and number of performances) and attitudes during the latest CPR performance (8 questions). All attitude questions are constructed as multiple choice questions.

Results regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR and attitudes during the latest CPR performance will be presented descriptively. To analyse a possible effect of time since CPR performance and number of CPR performances on attitudes during the latest CPR performance logistic regression will be used. Response variables will be "yes" or "no" on 8 specific attitude questions with predictors consisting of time since CPR performance (0-3 months ago, 4-23 months ago and >24 months) and number of CPR performances (1-3 times, 4-10 times and >10 times).

Enrollment: 3,639 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• In-hospital healthcare professionals.
• Patient contact

Exclusion criteria

• Absent during the survey
• Parental leave
• Leave of absence
• Sick leave.

Trial design

3,639 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthcare professionals in the Region of Västmanland

Description:

Healthcare professionals of all professions working in-hospital with patient contact at two hospitals in the Region of Västmanland, Sweden. Data is collected by questionnaires.

Healthcare professionals in the Region of Dalarna

Description:

Healthcare professionals of all professions working in-hospital with patient contact at three hospitals in the Region of Dalarna, Sweden. Data is collected by questionnaires.