Knowledge and Attitude about Basic Life Support and Emergency Medical Services amongst Healthcare Interns in University Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 4
Distribution of attitude in different faculty.
Attitude
Options
Medicine (n=176)
Dental (n=199)
Nursing (n=135)
Pharmacy (n=132)
P-value
n
%
n
%
n
%
n
%
Have you had previous BLS training?
Yes
159
90.3
182
91.5
116
86
103
78.0
0.001
No
17
9.7
17
8.5
19
14
29
22.0
Do you want more BLS training?
Yes
106
60.2
131
65.8
86
63.7
77
58.3
0.64
No
44
25.0
41
20.6
25
18.5
31
23.5
Don’t know
26
14.8
27
13.6
24
17.8
24
18.2
Do you think BLS training should be mandatory in the curriculum?
Yes
109
61.9
130
65.3
99
73.3
80
60.6
0.29
No
29
16.5
32
16.1
13
9.6
20
15.2
Don’t know
38
21.6
37
18.6
23
17.0
32
24.2
If you have had no BLS training outside of college, what was the reason?
it’s not important
17
9.7
21
10.6
17
12.6
7
5.3
Busy schedule
60
34.1
50
25.1
42
31.1
27
20.5
0.001
Not interested
30
17.0
26
13.1
16
11.9
38
28.8
Cost of the course
23
13.1
29
14.6
28
20.7
16
12.1
No answer
46
26.1
73
36.7
32
23.7
44
33.3
P-values by Chi-Square test. P-value<0.05 is considered to be statistically significant. P-value<0.001, NS-Statistically non-significant.
