“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CARDIO
PULMONARY RESUSCITATION AMONG DEGREE
STUDENTS IN SELECTED COLLEGES OF
TUMKUR”
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECT
FOR DISSERTATION
DIVYA LUKOSE
MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING
ARUNA COLLEGE OF NURSING
RING ROAD, MARALUR, TUMKUR.
2010-2011
RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BANGALORE,
KARNATAKA.
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS FOR DISSERTATION.
1. Name of the Candidate : MRS. DIVYA LUKOSE
And Address MSc Nursing Ist Year
Aruna College of Nursing
Ring Road, Maralur
Tumkur.
2. Name of the Institution : Aruna College of Nursing
3. Course of Study And : M.Sc Nursing Ist Year
Subject Medical Surgical Nursing
4. Date of Admission : 10.06.2010
5. Title of the Topic : “A Study to assess the effectiveness of
structured teaching programme on
knowledge regarding Cardio Pulmonary
Resuscitation among degree students
in selected colleges of Tumkur”
6.0 BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK
INTRODUCTION
“Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician”
Chris Hadfield
Cardio means “of the heart” and pulmonary means “of the lungs”. Resuscitation is a medical word that means “to revive” or bring back to life. Sometimes cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can help a person who has stopped breathing, and whose heart may have stopped beating, to stay alive. People who handle emergencies such as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses are all trained to do CPR. Many other teens and adults like lifeguards, teachers, child care workers, and may be even your mom or dad know how to do CPR too1.
Sudden cardiac death is a major cause of death in today’s developed countries. In most cases, defibrillation and other means of advanced life support are not immediately available. In urban settings it takes an average of nearly ten minutes for professional help to arrive. During this time victims can only rely upon CPR provided by educated bystanders. Therefore a substantial burden of responsibility lies on the shoulders of educators who need to pass on their knowledge and skills of CPR to their trainees in a way simple enough to be remembered and recalled rapidly in a highly stressful moment. It has been shown that correctly performed bystander CPR may positively influence short and long- term survival of cardiac arrest victims2.
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The organizations are primarily responsible for basic cardiac life support standards in the United States: The American Heart Association and American Red Cross. These standards are taught to health care providers and general public by certified instructors across the nation. All nurses should be prepared in CPR. The American Red Cross offers courses in basic first aid.CPR is taught in most hospitals or community colleges. Care should be started immediately to prevent complications. The nurse’s safety should never be jeopardized when administering care3.
Every nurse and physician should be skilled in CPR because cardiac arrest, the sudden cessation of breathing, and adequate circulation of blood by the heart, may occur at any time or in any setting. Resuscitation measures are divided into two components, basic cardiac life support and advanced cardiac life support. The American Heart Association establishes the standards for CPR and is actively involved in teaching BCLS and ACLS to health professionals. The American Heart Association recommends that nurses and physicians working with patients be certified in BCLS and ACLS. Certification involves attending formal classes and passing cognitive and motor skill tests. CPR alone is not enough to save lives in most cardiac arrest. It is a vital link in the chain of survival that supports the victim until more advanced help is available. The chain of survival is composed of the following sequence: early activation of the EMS system, early CPR, early defibrillation and early advanced care4.
6.1 NEED FOR THE STUDY
CPR is a rescue procedure to be used when the heart and lungs have stopped working. There is a wide variation in the reported incidence and outcome for out of hospital cardiac arrest. These differences are due to in part to differences in definition and ascertainment of cardiac arrest as well as differences in treatment after its onset.
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Several authors described the problem of poor performance in CPR, even when provided by medical professionals. Numerous investigations have reported the problem of poor skills retention after various CPR courses. Studies reporting the need for improvement of resuscitation techniques led to the recent changes in BLS and ALS algorithms2.
Many people may think you need to get a degree to get a healthcare job, but the truth is many jobs simply require applicants to be CPR and First Aid certified Courses to receive certification in CPR and First Aid are offered at colleges, technical schools, and Red Cross facilities across the country. This makes getting certified easy and very accessible to anyone. People can get both certifications as young as 16 years of age. This means they can start getting credible work experience at an earlier age, which will only help them out more down the road. And since the courses are so short, it does not have to interfere with high school5.
Cardio pulmonary Resuscitation has been used extensively in the hospital setting since its introduction over 3 decades ago. Saklayen M etal conducted study on in hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Survival in hospital and they reviewed that CPR records, 44% of the patient initially survived following CPR, and the 1 –year survival rate was 5% patients with shorter durations of CPR and those administered fewer procedures and medications during CPR survival longer than patients with prolonged CPR. Knowledge of the likelihood of survival following CPR for subgroups of the hospital population based on prearrest and intra arrest factors can help patients, their families, and their physicians decide with compassion and conviction, in what situations CPR should be administered6
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Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. Each year almost 330,000 Americans die from heart disease. Half of these will die suddenly, outside of the hospital because their heart stops beating he most common cause of death from heart attack in adult is a disturbance in the electrical rhythm of the heart or ventricular fibrillation. It can be treated by applying an electrical shock to the chest. One way of buying time until a defibrillator becomes available is to provide artificial breathing and circulation by performing CPR7
In India the annual incidence of sudden cardiac death accounts for 0.55 per 1000 population. The survival rate of a sudden cardiac arrest is almost less than 1%. Sudden cardiac death constitutes 40-45% of cardiovascular deaths and out of this almost 80% are due to heart arrhythmia disturbances or arrhythmia8.
In April 2008, the American heart association took steps to simplify the process of helping victims of cardiac arrest by introducing “hands only” CPR. About one third of people who suffer a cardiac arrest at home or at a public place actually receive help, bystanders could be afraid to initiate CPR for fear that they will do something wrong or won’t know what to do. Others may be reluctant to perform mouth to mouth breathing for fear of contracting an infection. The American heart association proposed the new guidelines in order to allow bystander who have not been trained in conventional CPR or who may fear making mistake a way to offer help9.
In the light of above, the investigator found it desirable to assess the knowledge and skill in CPR technique among the degree students and also to update the knowledge and improvement in skill. The way to learn CPR is to practice CPR. Educating the
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students and creating awareness in helping them to learn more about CPR and it help to prevent death occurring due to cardiac arrest. Early initiation of CPR improves the chance of successful resuscitation and survival.
6.2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
. Literature review is a critical summary of research on a topic of interest, often prepared to put a research problem in context10.
A study was conducted regarding awareness and attitudes of Chinese students towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation in China (2010). Study was conducted among 3500 students from the city of Wuhan in China randomly according to the stratified cluster sampling technique. There were 3248 questionnaires answered and 2763 questionnaires were considered valid. Few respondents reported that they had heard (28%) and studied (27%) of CPR and only 3% of the respondents had attended a CPR course. The two major sources of information about CPR for Chinese students were television and books. Most respondents expressed a desire to learn CPR (77%) and were willing to disseminate CPR (73%). The result of the study was shows that dissemination of CPR among Chinese students has not been executed satisfactory. The finding highlights the importance of CPR dissemination and efforts should be made to provide more convenient, effective and attractive ways for the Chinese public, especially students, to learn CPR11.
A study was conducted regarding effectiveness of emergency response planning for sudden cardiac arrest in United States high schools with automated external defibrillators in USA (2009). A cohort of US high schools with atleast 1 onsite automated external defibrillators use in sports. A school representative completed a comprehensive 5
survey on emergency planning and provided details of any sudden cardiac arrest incident occurring within 6 months of survey completion. A case of sudden cardiac arrest victims included 14 high schools student athletes (mean age 16 years; range, 14 to 17 years) and 22 older nonstudents (mean age 57 years; range is 42 to 71 years) such as employees and spectators. Of the 36 sudden cardiac arrest cases, 35 (97%) were witnessed, 34 (94%) received bystander CPR and 30 (83%) received an automated external defibrillator shock. 23 sudden cardiac arrest victims (64%) survived to hospital discharge, including 9 of the 14 students and 14 of the 22 older non students. The result of the study shows that school based automated external defibrillator programs provides a high survival rate. High schools are strongly encouraged to implement onsite automated external defibrillator programs as part of a comprehensive emergency response plan to sudden cardiac arrest12.
A study was conducted regarding retention, retention, retention: targeting the young in CPR skills training in USA (2009). The prospective investigation was conducted and set out to determine whether young students have the physical and cognitive skills to implement CPR. In this investigation, the average time from the last class of CPR instructions to the evaluation session was 120 days. It is not clear whether such a large gap in time between initial instruction and skills testing may have affected testing performance, except that good performance could indicate good retention. As the investigator demonstrated, students as young as 9 years are able to effectively learn CPR skills. The students aged 9 to 10 years could compress the chest to the depth recommend by the guidelines, but 45% of students aged 13 to 14 years old could. Studies also have found that with retraining, CPR performance can improve in school aged children and distributing CPR training kits to students aged 12 to 14 years resulted in another 2.5 persons trained per students13.
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A study was conducted regarding community CPR training Greece (2008). There is a lack of information about the status and characteristics of community CPR training in Greece. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the knowledge of basic aspects of CPR practice, characteristics of training an areas in need of improvement to increase CPR competence in the community. Using a random digit dialing telephone survey, 390 residents of large country were interviewed. Weighting methods were used to estimate population statistics. Results indicated a low prevalence of current training and lack of basic CPR knowledge, reflecting the limited extent of and access to training. Results suggest the need for a standardized, widespread CPR program14.
A study was conducted regarding attitudes toward the performance of bystander CPR in Japan (2007). Early initiation of bystander CPR improves the chance of successful resuscitation and survival. A total of 4223 individuals (male 50%) completed the questionnaire, including high school students, teachers, emergency medical technicians, medical nurses and medical students. About 70% of the subjects had experienced CPR training more than once. Only 10-30% of high school students, teachers and health care providers reported willingness to perform chest compression plus mouth to mouth ventilation, especially on a stranger or trauma victim. The study result shows that most lay people and health care providers are unlikely to perform chest compression plus mouth to mouth ventilation, especially on a stranger or trauma victim. These findings suggest that mouth to mouth ventilation training should be deemphasized and the awareness of chest compression alone should be emphasized because for whatever reason, people do not want to perform mouth to mouth ventilation15.
A nationwide survey of CPR training conducted in Sweden about foreign born and unemployed are not reached by training programmes (2006). The sample was selected at random and stratified to correlate to the geographic distribution of the population. The mean age was 46 (16) years, 54% of the respondents were females and
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11% were people of foreign origin. 45% had participated in some form of CPR training. Younger respondents, those living in rural areas, those born in Sweden, employee’s students and military conscripts were trained more frequently in CPR. The results shows that held of the non trained population was willing to learn CPR but frequently did not know that such courses existed or were they were held. Elderly people, people of foreign origin or those not included in the work force were less likely to have participated in CPR training16.
A study was conducted regarding teaching basic life support to 12-16 year olds in Barcelona schools views of head teachers, in 2006(Spain). The aim of the study was to determine the opinion of head teachers on the educational and logistical characteristics required for a basic CPR programme for secondary school teenagers to succeed. The results shows that one hundred out 227 (44%) surveys were sent back.:63% from private and 37% from public secondary schools with 85% of head teachers being interested in incorporating a basic CPR in the school curriculum. Interested head teachers did not differ in age, sex or king of degree compared to their non interested counterparts. Overall it was considered that the programme could increase the students self esteem (86%) and be useful for saving lives (72%). It was also felt that both theoretical (77%) and practical classes (97%) should be given by health care providers. In Barcelona, most secondary schools surveyed were highly interested in a basic CPR for their teenagers in grades 3 or 4. Teachers would prefer health care providers to give the programme but would be willing to teach basic CPR theory if trained previously17.