Knowledge retention regarding First Aid: A comparison between trained and untrained medical students in Peshawar
| Autor: | null Samin Ullah Khan, null Ali Raza, null Bibi Aliya, null Waqar Ali, null Seema Ashraf, null Sher Bahadur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | The Professional Medical Journal. 29:912-916 |
| ISSN: | 2071-7733 1024-8919 |
| DOI: | 10.29309/tpmj/2022.29.06.6584 |
| Popis: | Objective: To compare the impact of formal training in terms of knowledge retention regarding First Aid among medical students of selected medical colleges in Peshawar, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Three Selected Public and Private Medical Colleges in Peshawar. Period: November 2018 to June 2019. Material & Methods: A total of 150 students out of whom 75 had received formal training of first aid program one year back and 75 were selected as a comparative group who had no training in this regards. Data were collected on an indigenous questionnaire which incorporates the knowledge about basic terminology and important step taken for dealing with the different medical emergencies as first aid providers. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 20. Chi-square test was used for comparing the frequency of correct answers and p-value 0.05). Conclusion: The regarding knowledge of first aid program were more or less similar among trained and untrained medical students. However, comparatively higher proportions of trained medical students were able to correctly define the term first aid and CPR. |
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