Knowledge about Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in High School Students

Background and Aim: The teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in schools is very effective and affordable in order to promote it in a community. Initiation of resuscitation measures within 4 minutes increases the chance of survival in individuals by 2-4 times. Students can learn this process CPR, it is taught to other family members to save lives of people who have a heart attack, if necessary, therefore, this study was conducted to determine the knowledge about basic CPR in high school students in Masjed-Soleyman in 2018.

Materials and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, stratified random sampling was performed in second grade high school students in Masjed-Soleyman in 2018. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire on knowledge of CPR. Data analysis was done with spss-20 software using T-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient.

Results: In this study, 165 students with mean age of 16.72 ±0.87 were enrolled. Of these, 46.7% were boys and the rest were girls. Mean score of knowledge and attitude of these people was 2.85 ± 2.40, which indicates a very weak awareness about CPR. Pre-university students and those who received information from cyberspace had significantly better knowledge about CPR (p <0.05). There were not statistically significant between mean of knowledge and gender scores, grade Point average, the place of residence, parent's job and parents' education (p <0.05).

Conclusion: The results showed that students' knowledge of CPR is very weak and also attention to factors such as cyberspace and the use of new educational tools such as film and software can be very effective and raise awareness of these people. It should be noted in the macro plans to raise the level of literacy of students as those who can play a role in CPR.