Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evaluate the change in participant emergency care knowledge and skill confidence after implementation of the WHO-International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course.

Design

Pretest/post-test quasi-experimental study.

Setting

Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Participants

Seventy-nine participants engaged in the course, of whom 50 (63.3%) completed all assessment tools. The course was open to healthcare providers of any level who assess and treat emergency conditions as part of their practice. The most common participant profession was resident physician (24%), followed by health educator (18%) and prehospital provider (14%).

Interventions

The 5-day WHO-ICRC BEC course.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Kivlehan SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature