Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia

Introduction: Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation are important factors in the chain of survival and doctors play crucial role as early responders in cardiac arrest cases outside of the hospital. This study aims to assess knowledge and attitude towards CPR among primar...

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Main Author:	Azman, Muhammad Nuaim Muhammad
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	R Medicine
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spelling	my-usm-ep.502952021-10-17T03:30:54Z Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia 2020 Azman, Muhammad Nuaim Muhammad R Medicine Introduction: Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation are important factors in the chain of survival and doctors play crucial role as early responders in cardiac arrest cases outside of the hospital. This study aims to assess knowledge and attitude towards CPR among primary care doctors in Melaka and factors associated with having good knowledge among the doctors. Methods: This is a 12 months cross sectional study that was conducted between 10th October 2018 until 9th October 2019 using a modified questionnaire involving all Primary Health Clinics in Melaka. All doctors who fitted the inclusion and exclusion criteria were invited to participate and required to fill up the self-administered questionnaire that test their knowledge and attitude towards CPR. Results: Out of 250 respondents, 59.6% had good knowledge and 20% had positive attitude towards CPR. Among the factors studied, age (p= 0.007), duration in service (p= 0.004) and have experience performing CPR (p= 0.034) have been found to have association with good knowledge in CPR. Conclusions: Most primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka have good knowledge of CPR but have negative attitude towards it. Age, duration in service, and having performed CPR were factors that associated with good knowledge on CPR. These highlights need of exposure and training to improve knowledge of CPR among government primary health care doctors in Melaka. 2020 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/50295/ http://eprints.usm.my/50295/1/MUHAMMAD%20NUAIM%20BIN%20MUHAMMAD%20AZMAN-24%20pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
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spellingShingle	R Medicine Azman, Muhammad Nuaim Muhammad Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
description	Introduction: Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation are important factors in the chain of survival and doctors play crucial role as early responders in cardiac arrest cases outside of the hospital. This study aims to assess knowledge and attitude towards CPR among primary care doctors in Melaka and factors associated with having good knowledge among the doctors. Methods: This is a 12 months cross sectional study that was conducted between 10th October 2018 until 9th October 2019 using a modified questionnaire involving all Primary Health Clinics in Melaka. All doctors who fitted the inclusion and exclusion criteria were invited to participate and required to fill up the self-administered questionnaire that test their knowledge and attitude towards CPR. Results: Out of 250 respondents, 59.6% had good knowledge and 20% had positive attitude towards CPR. Among the factors studied, age (p= 0.007), duration in service (p= 0.004) and have experience performing CPR (p= 0.034) have been found to have association with good knowledge in CPR. Conclusions: Most primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka have good knowledge of CPR but have negative attitude towards it. Age, duration in service, and having performed CPR were factors that associated with good knowledge on CPR. These highlights need of exposure and training to improve knowledge of CPR among government primary health care doctors in Melaka.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Azman, Muhammad Nuaim Muhammad
author_facet	Azman, Muhammad Nuaim Muhammad
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title	Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
title_short	Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
title_full	Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia
title_sort	knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in melaka, malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department	Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
publishDate	2020
url	http://eprints.usm.my/50295/1/MUHAMMAD%20NUAIM%20BIN%20MUHAMMAD%20AZMAN-24%20pages.pdf
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Knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors among primary care doctors in outpatient clinics in Melaka, Malaysia

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