Effect of First Aid Education on First Aid Knowledge and Skills of Commercial Drivers in South West Nigeria

Olumide, Adesola; Asuzu, Michael C.; Kale, Oladele O.

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“…Post-training surveys immediately after training and after six months showed that there was a significant improvement in first aid knowledge and skills confidence among traffic police. Similar studies on lay responder first aid training with participants other than police officers also demonstrated the positive impact of educational training on first aid knowledge and skills (9,10,(21)(22)(23). Common to these studies was the use of didactic and hands-on approaches to training.…”

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“…Most RTI victims get to the hospital from the scene through the efforts of untrained civilians and medically unknowledgeable lay responders such as police officers (4)(5)(6)(7) The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that where no prehospital trauma care system exists, first responder care should be established through the involvement of members of the community (8). Based on the WHO recommendation, several educational programs have been piloted across Africa to build knowledge and skills capacity of lay first responders to recognize an emergency, call for help, and provide initial care until formally trained health-care personnel can take responsibility (9)(10)(11)(12). Previous studies of educational programs have focused on drivers or a mix of participants.…”

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Impact of a Postcrash First Aid Educational Program on Knowledge, Perceived Skills Confidence, and Skills Utilization Among Traffic Police Officers: A Single-Arm Before-After Intervention Study

Ndile

Lukumay

Bölenius

et al. 2020

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Background An overwhelming proportion of road traffic deaths and injuries in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) occur in prehospital environments. Lay first responders such as police officers play an important role in providing initial assistance to victims of road traffic injuries either alone or in collaboration with others. The present study evaluated a postcrash first aid (PFA) educational program developed for police officers in Tanzania. Method A 16-hour PFA educational program was conducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for 135 police officers. Participants completed training surveys before, immediately and six months after the training (before, N = 135; immediately after, N = 135; after six months, N = 102). The primary outcome measures were PFA knowledge, perceived skills confidence, and skills utilization. Parametric and nonparametric tests were used to analyse changes in outcome. Results The mean PFA knowledge score increased from 44.73% before training ( SD = 20.70) to 72.92% six months after training ( SD = 18.12), p ˂ .001, N = 102. The mean PFA perceived skills confidence score (measured on a 1–5 Likert scale) increased from 1.96 before training ( SD = 0.74) to 3.78 six months after training ( SD = 0.70), p ˂ .001, N = 102. Following training, application of the recovery position skill ( n = 42, 46%) and application of the bleeding control skill ( n = 45, 49%) were reported by nearly half of the responding officers. Less than a quarter of officers reported applying head and neck immobilization skills ( n = 20, 22%) following training. Conclusion A PFA educational program has shown to improve police officers’ knowledge and perceived skills confidence on provision of first aid. However qualitative research need to be conducted to shed more light regarding reasons for low utilization of trained first aid skills during follow-up.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Impact of a Postcrash First Aid Educational Program on Knowledge, Perceived Skills Confidence, and Skills Utilization Among Traffic Police Officers: A Single-Arm Before-After Intervention Study

Ndile

Lukumay

Bölenius

et al. 2020

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“…Olumide et al 37 prospectively assessed knowledge retention after a first aid training program for truck drivers in Nigeria. Such a program has the potential to improve the care of road traffic accident victims in countries without developed EMS systems.…”

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Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2015

Becker

Hansoti

Bartels

et al. 2016

Academic Emergency Medicine

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Objectives: The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) conducts an annual search of peer-reviewed and gray literature relevant to global emergency medicine (EM) to identify, review, and disseminate the most important new research in this field to a global audience of academics and clinical practitioners.Methods: This year 12,435 articles written in six languages were identified by our search. These articles were distributed among 20 reviewers for initial screening based on their relevance to the field of global EM. An additional two reviewers searched the gray literature. A total of 723 articles were deemed appropriate by at least one reviewer and approved by their editor for formal scoring of overall quality and importance. Two independent reviewers scored all articles.Results: A total of 723 articles met our predetermined inclusion criteria and underwent full review. Sixty percent were categorized as emergency care in resource-limited settings (ECRLS), 17% as EM development (EMD), and 23% as disaster and humanitarian response (DHR). Twenty-four articles received scores of 18.5 or higher out of a maximum score 20 and were selected for formal summary and critique. Inter-rater reliability between reviewers gave an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.71 (95% confidence interval = 0.66 to 0.75). Studies and reviews with a focus on infectious diseases, trauma, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases common in resource-limited settings represented the majority of articles selected for final review.

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that where no prehospital trauma care system exists, first responder care should be established through the involvement of members of the community [8]. Based on the WHO recommendation, several educational programs have been piloted across Africa to build knowledge and skills capacity of lay first responders to recognize an emergency, call for help, and provide initial care until formally trained health-care personnel can take responsibility [9][10][11][12]. Previous studies of educational programs have focused on drivers or a mix of participants.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact of a postcrash first aid educational program on knowledge, perceived skills confidence, and skills utilization among traffic police officers: a single-arm before-after intervention study

et al. 2020

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Background: An overwhelming proportion of road traffic deaths and injuries in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) occur in prehospital environments. Lay first responders such as police officers play an important role in providing initial assistance to victims of road traffic injuries either alone or in collaboration with others. The present study evaluated a postcrash first aid (PFA) educational program developed for police officers in Tanzania. Method: A 16-h PFA educational program was conducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for 135 police officers. Participants completed training surveys before, immediately and 6 months after the training (before, N = 135; immediately after, N = 135; after 6 months, N = 102). The primary outcome measures were PFA knowledge, perceived skills confidence, and skills utilization. Parametric and nonparametric tests were used to analyse changes in outcome. Results: The mean PFA knowledge score increased from 44.73% before training (SD = 20.70) to 72.92% 6 months after training (SD = 18.12), p < .001, N = 102. The mean PFA perceived skills confidence score (measured on a 1-5 Likert scale) increased from 1.96 before training (SD = 0.74) to 3.78 6 months after training (SD = 0.70), p < .001, N = 102. Following training, application of the recovery position skill (n = 42, 46%) and application of the bleeding control skill (n = 45, 49%) were reported by nearly half of the responding officers. Less than a quarter of officers reported applying head and neck immobilization skills (n = 20, 22%) following training. Conclusion: A PFA educational program has shown to improve police officers' knowledge and perceived skills confidence on provision of first aid. However qualitative research need to be conducted to shed more light regarding reasons for low utilization of trained first aid skills during follow-up.

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Effect of First Aid Education on First Aid Knowledge and Skills of Commercial Drivers in South West Nigeria

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Impact of a Postcrash First Aid Educational Program on Knowledge, Perceived Skills Confidence, and Skills Utilization Among Traffic Police Officers: A Single-Arm Before-After Intervention Study

Impact of a Postcrash First Aid Educational Program on Knowledge, Perceived Skills Confidence, and Skills Utilization Among Traffic Police Officers: A Single-Arm Before-After Intervention Study

Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2015

Impact of a postcrash first aid educational program on knowledge, perceived skills confidence, and skills utilization among traffic police officers: a single-arm before-after intervention study

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