Clinical trial NCT04321213: In-hospital Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes and Their Experience in Performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
Official title: In-hospital Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes and Their Experience in Performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: In-hospital Cardiac Arrest
Keywords: in-hospital cardiac arrest
attitudes
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPR
Lead sponsor: Dalarna County Council, Sweden
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Region Västmanland
name: Dalarna University
name: Center for Clinical Research Dalarna, Sweden
First posted: 2020-03-25
Enrollment: 3639
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: In-hospital healthcare professionals of all professions at five hospitals in the region of Västmanland and Region of Dalarna, Sweden.

Brief summary: Attitudes among healthcare professionals can possibly affect the treatment given in cardiac arrest situations. The attitudes of healthcare professionals towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been poorly studied. The few existing previous international results shows attitudes reported by nurses as hesitation, fear of defibrillation, anxiety and fear of harming the patient.

The aim of this study was to describe the attitudes towards performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation among in-hospital healthcare professionals, furthermore to assess if experience in performing CPR has an effect on attitudes.

Detailed description: Data will be collected using questionnaires containing attitude questions. The questionnaires contains questions regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR (6 questions), previous experience in performing CPR (time since last performance and number of performances) and attitudes during the latest CPR performance (8 questions). All attitude questions are constructed as multiple choice questions.

Results regarding attitudes towards being required to perform CPR and attitudes during the latest CPR performance will be presented descriptively. To analyse a possible effect of time since CPR performance and number of CPR performances on attitudes during the latest CPR performance logistic regression will be used. Response variables will be "yes" or "no" on 8 specific attitude questions with predictors consisting of time since CPR performance (0-3 months ago, 4-23 months ago and \>24 months) and number of CPR performances (1-3 times, 4-10 times and \>10 times).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* In-hospital healthcare professionals.
* Patient contact

Exclusion Criteria:

* Absent during the survey
* Parental leave
* Leave of absence
* Sick leave.

Primary outcomes:
measure: In-hospital healthcare professionals' attitudes towards CPR.
timeFrame: one month
measure: In-hospital healthcare professionals' experience in performing CPR.
timeFrame: one month
measure: Does experience in performing CPR have an effect on attitudes towards CPR
timeFrame: two months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Västerås
country: Sweden
facility: Region of Västmanland
state: Västmanland
city: Mora
country: Sweden
facility: Region of Dalarna
Study officials:
affiliation: Dalarna County Council
name: Anneli Strömsöe, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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