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Abstract
Basic life support (BLS) is a part of emergency medical care. cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and knowledge among junior doctors is a topic of vital importance as the junior doctor is often the first person to attend to patients in emergency situations. (6) The aim of this study was to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices about Basic Life Support among Primary Health Care Providers in Kafr El-Zayat District, Gharbiya, Governorate, Egypt Our study included 240 health care workers; 36 participants from urban centers, and 204 participants from rural units. All participants were subjected to a pre designed self-administrated questionnaire sheet adopted from American Heart Association Guidelines (2015) and included the following items: 1. Socio-demographic data as age, sex, educational level, marital status, work place, work period, residence, years of experience and previous attendance of training course in BLS. 2. Thirteen questions regarding knowledge about BLS. 3. Seven questions regarding attitudes towards BLS (closed ended questions) 4. Ten questions regarding Self- reported practices of BLS. About three fifths(61.3%) of studied group had average level of knowledge regarding BLS, 37.5% had poor knowledge level and only 1.3% of them had good level. There was a statistically significant association between age and Levels of knowledge (p = 0.032), with Younger ages (below 40years) achieving significantly higher percentages of average and good Levels of knowledge than ages above. Also educational level shows significant association (p < 0.001), as participants with Bachelor degree had knowledge about BLS (64% had average knowledge, 2.4% had good knowledge) more than those with secondary education. There was significant association between Job categories and levels of knowledge where physicians achieved significantly higher percentage of good and average levels (84.7%) of knowledge than nurses and health associated workers (75%&15.2%) respectively (p<0.001). Moreover, in our study we revealed that, a statistically significant high percentage of average and high levels of knowledge in participants received previous BLS course (p = 0.005). Distribution of the studied groups according to over-all attitude grades toward BLS showed that about 7.1% and 1.3% of the participants had mild and high positive attitudes towards BLS respectively, while 91.7% of them had moderate positive attitude, while none of the participants had negative or indifferent attitude. There was a statistically significant relation between level of knowledge and level of attitude towards BLS, as participants who had mild positive attitude, had poor knowledge, while about two third of participants with moderate positive attitude (65%), had average knowledge. • A bout half of the participants (51.7%) had imperfect Practice of BLS and (1.7%) of them had perfect Practice, while about 46.7 % of them had accepted practice. There was a statistically significant association between age and levels of practice toward BLS (p = 0.035), where HC providers aged below 40 years had significantly higher percentages of average and good Levels. Also there was a statistically significant association between Job categories and levels of practice; physicians achieved significantly higher percentage of average and good levels of practice than other health care providers (p < 0.001). There was a statistically significant relation between the Level of knowledge and practice of health care providers towards BLS (p < 0.001). The study revealed that the total score of knowledge and Job categories were considered the significant predictors for practice towards BLS among the studied primary health care providers with an effect of 42.7%.