Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April-June | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 35-40
A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of STP on Knowledge Regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation among B.Sc. Nursing Students
Prateeksha Gurung1, Salakha Mishra1, Kavita Chandrakar2
1College of Nursing Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy layout, Bangalore, Karnataka
2Assistant Professor, College of Nursing Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy layout, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Corresponding Author: Kavita Chandrakar
ABSTRACT
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation is an emergency procedure used to treat victims of cardiac and respiratory arrest. It is done with great urgency to avoid the brain damage or death results from 4-6 min without oxygen. Basic life support is that particular phase of emergency cardiac care that externally supports the circulation and ventilation of the victim of cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest through Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. One of the key factors that student nurses develop during their graduation training is to be prepared for emergency life saving measures like CPR anytime, anywhere. The investigator found it is desirable to assess the knowledge of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation among the degree students by conducting a pre-experimental study among 30 B.Sc. Nursing student nurses at Dayananada Sagar College of Nursing Sciences, Bangalore. The researcher had adopted a Pre-Experimental one group Pre-test - Post-test design to conduct the study. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation among B.Sc. Nursing students and to find out the effectiveness of STP on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. In view of the nature of the problem, the tool prepared consisted of demographic variables & self-structured knowledge questionnaire regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Random sampling was used to select 30 student nurses & the data was collected & analyzed by using descriptive & inferential statistics. The present study showed that the level of knowledge of student nurses revealed that 73.33% of students had inadequate knowledge, 26.66% had moderate knowledge in the pre-test whereas after administration of STP, 43.33% had inadequate knowledge,40% had moderate knowledge and 16.67% had adequate knowledge in the post-test . The calculated paired âtâ value was 5.7 which comprises a significant at the level of p < 0.05. Hence, there was a statistically significant difference between pre-test and post-test level of knowledge regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation among the students at the level of p<0.05.
Keywords: STP, Structured Teaching Programme, CPR, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, effectiveness