Attitudes of health care workers on the presence of the patient's family during resuscitation: Preliminary research results

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate healthcare providers attitude about contact and family member during resuscitation. Method: Results were collected by survey which is organised by Serbian Resuscitation Council (RSS). The survey refer to healthcare providers (all healthcare providers in different services) about family presence in resuscitation process. The survey is distributed by Google on 7000 email adress of RSS members from 01.09.2019. to 15.09.2019.Until that date survey is completed by 306 examined persons. Study used questionaire which is standardised and used in high-developed countries. The statistical data processing is done by IBM SPSS Statistics 22. Results: Most number of examined persons (41,8%) have attitude that psycho-social support is part of their praxis/job and more than a half are feel good when give psychologycal and social support to members of family. About half of examined have attitude to disagree about presence of family members during resuscitation attempt (46,4%). Half of examined persons thinks that presence of family members during resuscitation is stresfull for resuscitation team. In hospital condition, presence of family during resuscitation is supported by 81,7% examined. Conclusion: The attitude of healthcare providers about family presence during resuscitation are very different in Serbia and collection and data analysis is very important because of great public significance which cardiac arrest have. Most of healthcare providers are ready to give psychosocial and psychological support of victim"s family but the attitude about presens of family is divided.