comparison the effect of basic cpr face-to-face and electronic training on the self-efficacy of high school students

Introduction: today, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) training is highly important tosave the lives of people in need of cpr by those present at the scene, and it is useful to studynew training tools in this field. this study aimed to determine and compare the effect of basiccpr face-to-face and electronic training on the self-efficacy of high school students.methods: this randomized controlled field trial study was conducted on second-grade highschool students in tabas, iran, referring to high schools by an announced call. the samples(n=62) were randomly selected and divided into two groups of e-learning and face-to-facetraining (n=31 each). both groups completed the basic resuscitation skills self-efficacy scale atthe baseline and 1 week and 2 months after the training intervention. the collected data wereanalyzed in spss software (version 20) using statistical measures of mean and standarddeviation and statistical tests of t-test, chi-square, and repeated measures analysis of variance.findings: the results showed that both e-learning and face-to-face training methodssignificantly increased the self-efficacy of high school students in cpr in 1 week and 2 monthsafter training. in addition, a significant difference was observed between the two methodsregarding the mean score of basic cpr self-efficacy 1 week after the intervention (p<0.001).conclusion: considering the benefits of e-learning on students' cpr learning, this methodshould be used seriously for basic cpr self-efficacy training.