Effectiveness of teaching of neonatal resuscitation programme at a workshop for a mixed population of medical personnel

We evaluated the effectiveness of teaching at a neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP) workshop held for 35 medical personnel (including postgraduate trainee doctors, general duty medical officers, nursing officers and probationer nurses) using a one-group pretest-posttest design. None of the partic...

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Published in:Medical journal. Armed Forces India 2004-07, Vol.60 (3), p.244-246
Main Authors: Narayan, S, Mathai, SS, Adhikari, K, Bhandari, A, Bawa, KS
Format: Article
Language:English
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Neonatal resuscitation
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Workshop
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Summary:We evaluated the effectiveness of teaching at a neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP) workshop held for 35 medical personnel (including postgraduate trainee doctors, general duty medical officers, nursing officers and probationer nurses) using a one-group pretest-posttest design. None of the participants had any formal exposure to the NRP guidelines. A pre-workshop test of 20 multiple-choice questions was administered to all the participants. At the end of the workshop, the same 20 questions were administered and the two scores compared using t-test for paired data on SPSS statistical software. The mean pre-workshop score was 9.03 (SD 2.66) which improved to a mean of 15.53 (SD 1.93) post-workshop. This improvement was highly significant with p < 0.0001 (two-tailed) and the 95% confidence interval being −7.41 to −5.59. Subgroup analysis revealed that nursing officers and probationer nurses showed highly significant improvement in the post-workshop scores while trainee doctors doing Medicine, Pediatrics and the general duty medical officers showed statistically significant improvement in the post-workshop scores. This study shows that a medical workshop is an effective means of imparting knowledge to a mixed group of medical personnel.
ISSN:0377-1237
DOI:10.1016/S0377-1237(04)80055-8