Introduction of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation into the Primary and Secondary Schools’ Curricula in Nigeria: The Teachers’ View

Abstract

Unlike in Nigeria, incorporation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) into the primary / secondary schools’ curricula has been done by many advanced countries. This study aimed at assessing the views of some Nigerian primary and secondary schools’ teachers on the introduction of CPR into their schools’ curricula. Three hundred teachers aged 35 to 45years – 88 (29.33%) male and 212 (70,67%) female from schools in different States in Nigeria who came for 2015 Post NCE programme at the University of Port Harcourt participated in this questionnaire-based study. The data was analyzed using SPSS and tested four null hypotheses using chi-square test with significance level set at 0.05.All the hypotheses were rejected with each having P value of .000 (P < 0.05), thereby strongly indicating that the teachers would want to learn CPR, would also want to teach same to their pupils and students, as well as its introduction into the schools’ curricula.

Keywords: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Primary / Secondary Schools, Nigeria