Basic life support data.

A comprehensive understanding of emergency care is an essential skill for all medical students to effectively manage emergency situations. The aim of this study was to evaluate healthcare professional students’ understanding of basic life support (BLS) and to identify the factors that influence this knowledge. A Multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted across eight educational institutions in the Dhaka, Jashore, and Sylhet divisions of Bangladesh from January to June 2024, which included final-year medicine, physiotherapy, and nursing students. A total of 486 participants were selected by the convenience sampling method. A bi-variable and multi-variable logistic regression analysis was carried out and the p-value was set at