Table 4.
Attitude | Options | Medicine (n=176) | Dental (n=199) | Nursing (n=135) | Pharmacy (n=132) | P-value | ||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
Have you had previous BLS training? | Yes | 159 | 90.3 | 182 | 91.5 | 116 | 86 | 103 | 78.0 | 0.001∗∗∗ |
No | 17 | 9.7 | 17 | 8.5 | 19 | 14 | 29 | 22.0 | ||
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Do you want more BLS training? | Yes | 106 | 60.2 | 131 | 65.8 | 86 | 63.7 | 77 | 58.3 | 0.646NS |
No | 44 | 25.0 | 41 | 20.6 | 25 | 18.5 | 31 | 23.5 | ||
Don't know | 26 | 14.8 | 27 | 13.6 | 24 | 17.8 | 24 | 18.2 | ||
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Do you think BLS training should be mandatory in the curriculum? | Yes | 109 | 61.9 | 130 | 65.3 | 99 | 73.3 | 80 | 60.6 | 0.297NS |
No | 29 | 16.5 | 32 | 16.1 | 13 | 9.6 | 20 | 15.2 | ||
Don't know | 38 | 21.6 | 37 | 18.6 | 23 | 17.0 | 32 | 24.2 | ||
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If you have had no BLS training outside of college, what was the reason? | it's not important | 17 | 9.7 | 21 | 10.6 | 17 | 12.6 | 7 | 5.3 | |
Busy schedule | 60 | 34.1 | 50 | 25.1 | 42 | 31.1 | 27 | 20.5 | 0.001∗∗∗ | |
Not interested | 30 | 17.0 | 26 | 13.1 | 16 | 11.9 | 38 | 28.8 | ||
Cost of the course | 23 | 13.1 | 29 | 14.6 | 28 | 20.7 | 16 | 12.1 | ||
No answer | 46 | 26.1 | 73 | 36.7 | 32 | 23.7 | 44 | 33.3 |
P-values by Chi-Square test. P-value<0.05 is considered to be statistically significant. ∗∗∗P-value<0.001, NS-Statistically non-significant.