Halah Ahmed Alismail
Teachers' perspectives of utilizing distance learning to support 21st century skill attainment for K-3 elementary students during the COVID-19 pandemic era
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benefits cardiopulmonary resuscitation training schoolchildren well known appropriate age introducing training still discussed important issue since outofhospital cardiac arrest major public health concern objective study investigate effects implemented cardiopulmonary resuscitation training knowledge schoolchildren last three grades slovenian elementary schools willingness attitudes intentions toward helping others performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation experience training instructors also explored mixed methods research design employed using separate prepost samples design focus groups research conducted 15 slovenian public elementary schools offering cardiopulmonary resuscitation training focus groups included training instructors developers data collected structured questionnaire april june 2018 analyzed using univariate bivariate analyses three focus groups convened september october 2018 content analysis discussion transcriptions conducted sample included 764 schoolchildren aged 125145 years cardiopulmonary resuscitation training 566 schoolchildren training three nonhomogeneous focus groups included eight cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructors significant progress cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge noted training implementation greatest progress seen youngest age group mean age 125 greatest increase training seen variables attitude toward helping others p 0001 selfconfidence p 0001 analysis focus groups yielded two themes effects cardiopulmonary resuscitation training schoolchildren b systemic responsibility school system professional bodies significant progress schoolchildrens cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge training established early introduction training recommended cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge raises awareness responsibility help others increases selfconfidence provide bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation concluded early cardiopulmonary resuscitation training children crucial mandatory part school curricula countries cardiopulmonary resuscitation yet mandatory