1Student in Master of Nursing Program, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
2Lecturer in Department of Child Health, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
3Lecturer in Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
*Corresponding author: Nadia Oktiffany Putri, email: nadiaoktiffany@yahoo.com
Online published on 26 September, 2019.
Basic Life Support (BLS) knowledge and abilities are important for all people to help the survival life of someone who experiences life-threatening conditions, such as cardiac arrest. Nursing students are one of the bystander components to provide assistance in emergency situation.
The aim of the study was to determine the influence of providing BLS learning with mobile application in knowledge improvement.
The study used a pre-test and post-test of true-experimental design with two comparison groups. The groups were control group and experiment group. The research location was at STIKes Kendedes School of nursing, Malang, Indonesia. Forty eight students were recruited using simple random sampling. Each group consisted of 24 students. The paired t-test and independent t-test was used for data analysis.
The findings showed that there was a significant difference of BLS knowledge between mobile application group and traditional method group (p = 0.016 < 0.05).
In conclusion, the findings highlight that mobile application has more significant influence on BLS learning in nursing students by improving their knowledge. The use of mobile application provides opportunities to make learning process more accessible and flexible.
Basic Life Support (BLS), mobile application, traditional method
