title: Effectiveness of Teaching of Neonatal Resuscitation Programme at a Workshop for a Mixed Population of Medical Personnel.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Paediatrics & Neonatology), INHS Asvini, Mumbai.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Narayan
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Paediatrics), INHS Asvini, Mumbai.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Mathai
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 400 040.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adhikari
authors.affiliation: Graded Specialist (Paediatrics), INHS Asvini, Mumbai.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhandari
authors.affiliation: Ex-Senior Advisor (Paediatrics), INHS Asvini, Mumbai.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Bawa
keywords: Evaluation; Neonatal resuscitation; Teaching; Workshop