Innocent Yusufu, Tumaini Nagu, Theresia A Ottaru, Mary Mmwanyika Sando, Sylvia Kaaya, Erasto Mbugi, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Claudia Hawkins
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and associated factors among adults on antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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high prevalence covid19 necessity social distancing impacted medical training one hand high mortality rate following disease led american heart association aha issue guidelines october 2020 performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation patients diagnosed suspected covid19 various methods exist teaching guidelines however use many methods greatly challenged due high risk disease transmission moreover published guidelines emphasize protection covid19 infection present study aims compare impact two educational methods educational webinars simulations competence performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation covid19 epidemic semiexperimental study conducted 70 emergency medical technicians pretest administered participants randomly assigned two groups educational webinar group 35 people simulation group 35 people educational webinar group received online training using adobe connect software version 269 simulation group received inperson training using manikin simulator competence performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation covid19 epidemic compared two groups immediately training two months later data collection instruments utilized research included demographic questionnaire competency questionnaire performing cpr covid19 pandemic data analyzed using spss software version 19 statistical tests comparison results indicated educational webinar simulation groups average competence score performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation cpr three stages investigation showed significant differences p 0001 additionally groups study average competence score performing cpr immediately two months training significantly higher compared training p 0001 however two months training significantly lower compared immediately training p 0001 based results obtained current research educational methods educational webinar simulation significant effect competence performing cpr covid19 epidemic equally effective moreover recall test results two months later showed decrease competence performing cpr covid19 epidemic training methods webinar simulation indicating need periodic cpr training