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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

OCTUBRE 2015 N° 8 Volumen 18

Efficacy of an educative intervention upon the knowledge of a school population about basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Section: Ethics and Society

How to quote

Thovar Melián JF, Castañeda Suardiaz JG, Benazco García J. Efectividad de una intervención educativa en el conocimiento de la población escolar sobre reanimación cardiopulmonar básica. Metas Enferm oct 2015; 18(8): 63-69.

Authors

1Joel Francisco Thovar Melián, 2Josefina Graciela Castañeda Suardiaz, 3Javier Benazco García

Position

1Enfermero. Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife.2Profesora. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Sección de Enfermería y Fisioterapia. Universidad de La Laguna. Tenerife.3Melbourne House. Nottingham. United Kingdom.

Contact address

Joel Francisco Thovar. Melián C/ Doctor Alberto de Armas, 6ª, 2º D. 38007 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Contact email: jthomel92@hotmail.com

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of an educative intervention program on the improvement of the level of information and theoretical and practical knowledge required for basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) among a student population from Compulsory Secondary Education.  
Method: a quasi-experimental before-and-after study was designed. The study was conducted at a School in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. The population of the study were all the students from 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education, and 1st year of High School. The study was developed in three stages: during the first stage, students had to complete a questionnaire on theoretical-practical knowledge of CPR; in the second stage, a theoretical-practical course on CPR was conducted. After a 10-day period, the third stage consisted in re-assessing the level of knowledge acquired after the intervention, through the same questionnaire previously used.
Results: for the assessment previous to the intervention, 182 questionnaires were completed, while 171 were completed for post-intervention assessment. There were differences superior to 20% in the rate of correct answers to all questions after the intervention, and all differences were statistically significant.  
Conclusions: through this Educative Intervention Program on basic CPR, the school population has been brought closer, in an educational and practical way, to the protocol of action implemented by the American Heart Association and the European Resuscitation Council in their Chain of Survival, and it has been possible to provide those tools necessary for an adequate action in case of witnessing a cardiac arrest.

Keywords:

Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation; chain of survival; school population; educative intervention

Versión en Español

Título:

Efectividad de una intervención educativa en el conocimiento de la población escolar sobre reanimación cardiopulmonar básica