| The present study evaluated the opinions of physicians working in the emergency and trauma
surgery departments of Vienna Medical University, in Austria, and Tabriz Medical University,
in Iran, regarding the presence of patients’ relatives during resuscitation. In a
descriptive-analytical study, the data obtained from questionnaires that had been distributed
randomly to 40 specialists and residents at each of the participating universities were analyzed.
The questionnaire consisted of two sections aimed at capturing the participants’
demographic data, the participants’ opinions regarding their support for the family’s presence
during resuscitation, and the multiple potential factors affecting the participants’ attitudes,
including health beliefs, triggers that could facilitate the procedure, self-efficacy,
intellectual norms, and perceived behavioral control. The questionnaire also included a direct
question (Question 16) on whether the participants approved of family presence. Each
question could be answered using a Likert-type scale. The results showed that the mean
scores for Question 16 were 4.31 ± 0.64 and 3.57 ± 1.31 for participants at Vienna and Tabriz
universities, respectively. Moreover, physicians at Vienna University disapproved of the
presence of patients’ families during resuscitation to a higher extent than did those at Tabriz
University (P = 0.018). Of the studied prognostic factors affecting the perspectives of Vienna
Medical University’s physicians, health beliefs (P = 0.000; B = 1.146), triggers (P = 0.000; B
= 1.050), and norms (P = 0.000; B = 0.714) were found to be significant. |