Department of Mental Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore
Online published on 19 January, 2015.
Basic Life Support consist of a number of life saving techniques focused on the medicine "CAB"s (previously known as ABC recently changed by the American Heart Association). The advanced cardiac life support, protocols, in addition to Basic Life Support protocol. It is very important that every physiotherapy students need knowledge about Basic Life Support.
To assess the level of knowledge among physiotherapy students regarding basic life support.
To determine the association between the knowledge regarding basic life support and selected demographic variables.
A descriptive approach was adopted for the study. The samples were selected using purposive sampling technique. The sample consisted of 60 physiotherapy students. The instruments used for data collection were demographic proforma and structured knowledge questionnaire, Based on the data collected from the questionnaire, the analysis was done.
Highest percentage of physiotherapy students (46.67%) belongs to the age group of 19–20 years, 26.67% belongs to the age group of 21–22 years, 16.67% belongs to the age group of 23–24 years and 10% belongs to the age group of 17–18 years. Area wise mean, SD, mean percentage of knowledge scores shows that highest mean score(50.663%)was the area assessment and resuscitation technique in circulation and breathing, were as lowest mean score(4.521%)was the area of Sequential step in BLS. The overall mean percentage score of physiotherapy students was 90.756%. The finding shows that 26.667% of the physiotherapy students had good knowledge and 73.33% physiotherapy students had average knowledge on Basic Life Support. There is no significant association between knowledge level of physiotherapy students regarding BLS and selected demographic variables such as gender and year of studying, and there is significant association between knowledge level of physiotherapy students regarding BLS and selected demographic variables such as course attended on BLS, age of the students.
It can be concluded that the physiotherapy students had average knowledge regarding Basic Life support and no significant association were found knowledge score and their selected demographic variables.
BLS- Basic life support
