Table 2. Total ABCDE knowledge score per gender, department, profession category, and attended life support courses.
EM: Emergency medicine; ICU: Intensive care unit; NICU: Neonates intensive care unit; SD: Standard deviation
* Mann-Whitney test; ** Kruskal-Wallis Test
| Parameters | Mean (SD) Score | Mean (SD) Score % | 95%- Confidence Interval for Mean % | P-value |
| Overall score (n = 242) | 15.36 (4.72) | 52.94 (16.27) | 50.889 - 55.009 | - |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 16.35 (5.16) | 56.37 (17.8) | 53.08 - 59.66 | 0.001* |
| Female | 14.46 (4.09) | 49.85 (14.1) | 47.37 - 52.327 | |
| Department | ||||
| Anesthesia | 16.56 (4.48) | 57.1 (15.44) | 52.23 - 61.98 | 0.051** |
| Pediatric | 15.45 (4.07) | 53.279 (14.02) | 49.335 - 57.22 | |
| EM | 15.72 (5.25) | 54.2 (18.11) | 49.059 - 59.35 | |
| ICU | 13.86 (4.35) | 47.79 (14.99) | 43.53 - 52.05 | |
| NICU | 15.40 (5.11) | 53.10 (17.6) | 48.09 - 58.11 | |
| Profession category | ||||
| Medical specialist | 18.36 (3.94) | 63.308 (13.59) | 59.91 - 66.7 | < 0.001** |
| Resident | 16.15 (4.86) | 55.67 (16.74) | 51.148 - 60.1998 | |
| Nurse | 13.44 (4.09) | 46.34 (14.136) | 43.81 - 48.86 | |
| Previously attended life support courses | ||||
| No life support education | 12.93 (6.23) | 44.58 (21.49) | 32.17 - 56.989 | 0.122* |
| Advanced Paediatric Life Support | 15.87 (4.49) | 51.817 (16.7) | 49.1- 54.53 | 0.194* |
| European Paediatric Advanced Life support | 14 (11.31) | 48.27586 (39) | -302.24 - 398.79 | 0.879* |
| Advanced Cardiac Life Support | 15.68 (4.64) | 50.97 (15.98) | 50.97 - 57.186 | 0.372* |
| Advanced Trauma Life Support | 18.17 (5.09) | 62.64 (17.538) | 56.09 - 69.1925 | 0.001* |
| Pre-Hospital Paediatric Life Support | 19 (0) | 65.517 (0) | 65.5 - 65.517 | 0.176* |
| Training by department | 15.89 (4.97) | 54.7996 (17.14) | 49.08 - 60.51 | 0.413* |
| Theoretical lecture | 19.53 (3.67) | 67.34 (12.67) | 60.825 - 73.86 | < 0.001* |
| Other life support education | 15.59 (4.64) | 53.74 (16) | 50.227 - 57.258 | 0.608* |