Knowledge Levels of Paramedic Program Senior Year Students on Frequently Used Drugs and Interventional Procedures: A Comparative Study

Aim: Study was planned to determine and compare the knowledge level of senior year students studying in the paramedic programs at XXX universities, about frequently used drugs and interventional procedures.
Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with 167 students in XXX of three universities with XXX in ….. between March 30, 2019 and December 30, 2019. Descriptive findings were presented as percentage, mean, standard deviation, and median.
Results: The 52.1% of the participants were female and rest 47.9% were male. The most common issues about which the paramedic students felt incompetent were drug doses (58.6%) and interventional procedure complications (60.4%). The mean total score of paramedic students on their knowledge level of drugs and administration methods is 54.724. The total mean total score of paramedic students on their knowledge level of interventional procedures is 65.653. There was no difference in the knowledge level on drugs and administration methods in terms of different universities (P = 0.470). However, a significant difference was found in the knowledge level on interventional procedures between the students studying at different universities (P = 0.002). Advanced analysis revealed that the difference was due to XXX students (P < 0.806) (P < 0.004 for XXX and XXX).
Conclusions: It was determined that the low knowledge level of paramedic students on drug usage and interventional procedures. Training of paramedics who will work in pre-hospital emergency health service it is thought that should be provided standardization considering deficiencies and including updates.