A study on the awareness of dental hygiene students’ knowlege, attitude, and re-education about basic CPR re-education

Mi-Yeong Hwang   Gye-Won Jang1,*   Sung-Suk Park2   

Department of Dental Hygiene, Dongnam Health University
1Department of Dental Hygiene, Jinju Health University
2Department of Dental Hygiene, TaeGu Science University

Abstract

Objectives: This study provided students of University with CPR (cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) training and investigated their knowledge on the training, attitude, level difference, and re-training necessity related factors to find the results as follows; Methods: Frequency and t-test was performed using SPSS 21.0, and were conducted according to the need for re-education in order to determine the determinants of the students. Results: The knowledge on CPR was 10.88 on average; training necessity, 3.43; emergency response ability, 3.39; and CPR performance level, 3.10. Factors determining re-training to maintain educational effect were found to increase with increase in school year (p<0.001), training necessity escalation (p<0.001), and decrease in confidence of performing CPR (p<0.01). Conclusions: Based on the findings above, it was found that, although CPR training is generally conducted in dental hygiene education, its training effect decreased with time in terms of implementation performance, compared with students’ knowledge. Moreover, students who had completed the training strongly suggested the need for re-training. In this sense, schools will need to reinforce re-training as much as new training programs and the cycle needs to be as short as within 6 months for practical training system

Acknowledgements

본 연구는 동남보건대학교 연구비 지원에 의하여 수행된 것임.

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Table 1. General characteristics of the subject