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Incidents That Require First Aid in Schools: Can Teachers Give First Aid?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2018

Saide Faydalı Open the ORCID record for Saide Faydalı [Opens in a new window] ,
Sibel Küçük  and
Maide Yeşilyurt
Saide Faydalı*
Affiliation:
Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
Sibel Küçük
Affiliation:
Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey
Maide Yeşilyurt
Affiliation:
Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
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Correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Saide Faydalı, Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Nursing, Kazım Karabekir St. No: 82/2 Seljuklu/Konya, Turkey (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

Objective

School-aged children are a risk group in terms of accidents and injuries, and these factors may be the primary causes of death in children. Teachers have important roles in preventing accidents and injuries and giving first aid. The purpose of this research was to identify situations in which teachers most frequently encounter the need to administer first aid to children and whether the teachers performed the correct application in these events.

Methods

This descriptive study was conducted with 331 teachers in a city in the Central Anatolia Region. The study was approved by the local ethics committee and the participants.

Results

Of the 45.3% teachers educating children ages 6 to 15 years, 81.0% of the teachers were familiar with first aid, but only 23.0% claimed to have an adequate knowledge. In the previous year, situations that had required first aid included epistaxis (75.2%), abdominal pain (49.2%), and vomiting (39.2%). The study also investigated any accidents and injuries occurring, their causes, and the teachers’ interventions following the accidents and injuries. It was found that teachers had information about first aid, but they did not trust themselves enough to practice it.

Conclusion

Understanding the causes of accidents and injuries, finding preventive measures, and updating teachers’ knowledge about this subject are important to provide a safe educational environment. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:456-462)

Keywords

accidentchildrenfirst aidinjuryteacher
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 456 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 

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