Evaluating the impact of comprehensive epilepsy education programme for school teachers in Chandigarh city, India

Goel, Sonu; Singh, Navpreet; Lal, Vivek; Singh, Amarjeet

doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2013.09.010

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“…Using a series of workshops on the management of FA in epilepsy, in a study conducted with Indian teachers, it identified that there was a positive impact on the participants. It became evidenced by the increase in score after the intervention, 20 results similar to study in China. 21 To assess its participants during four stages, in which the latter was after four years of training, it got stable knowledge retention.…”

Section: Consideringsupporting

confidence: 78%

Primeiros socorros: objeto de educação em saúde para professores

Silva

Nunes

Costa

2018

Rev enferm UFPE on line.

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RESUMOObjetivo: avaliar o impacto do ensino de primeiros socorros no conhecimento e habilidade de professores. Método: estudo bibliográfico, descritivo, tipo revisão integrativa, com busca de artigos entre os meses de novembro e dezembro de 2017, nas bases de dados LILACS, BDENF e MEDLINE, utilizando-se os descritores em Ciências da Saúde School Teachers, First Aid e Health Education. Resultados: foram incluídos sete estudos, publicados entre os anos de 2008 a 2017. Embora não se observe um padrão de métodos de intervenção nos estudos analisados, os testes pré-intervenção revelaram resultados inferiores em relação aos testes pós-intervenção que, por sua vez, apresentaram melhoras significativas na média de respostas corretas. Conclusão: o ensino de Primeiros Socorros como objeto de educação em saúde impacta positivamente os níveis de conhecimento e habilidade de professores escolares. Descritores: Professores Escolares; Primeiros Socorros; Educação em Saúde; Saúde Escolar; Conhecimento; Intervenção Precoce. ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the impact of first-aid education under the knowledge and skills of teachers. Method: a bibliographical study, descriptive, integrative review type, with search of articles between the months of November and December 2017, in the databases LILACS, BDENF, and MEDLINE, using the descriptors in Health Sciences School Teachers, First Aid, and Health Education. Results: there were included seven studies, published between the years 2008 to 2017. Although it is not notice a pattern of intervention methods in the studies analyzed, the pre-intervention testing showed lower results in relation to the post-intervention tests, which, in their time, presented significant improvement in the average of correct replies. Conclusion: the teaching of first aid in health education positively impacts the levels of knowledge and skills of schoolteachers. Descriptors: School Teachers; First Aid; Health Education; School Health; Knowledge; Early Intervention.RESUMEN Objetivo: evaluar el impacto de la enseñanza de primeros auxilios en el conocimiento y la capacidad de los docentes. Método: un estudio bibliográfico, descriptivo, del tipo de revisión integradora, con búsqueda de artículos entre los meses de noviembre y diciembre de 2017, en las bases de datos, LILACS, BDENF y MEDLINE usando los descriptores en Ciencias de la Salud en inglés: School Teachers, First Aid e Health Education. Resultados: se incluyeron siete estudios, publicados entre los años 2008 a 2017. Aunque no es aviso de que un modelo de métodos de intervención en los estudios analizados, las pruebas de intervención mostraron resultados inferiores en relación con las pruebas después de la intervención, que, en su momento, presentaron una mejoría significativa en el promedio de las respuestas correctas. Conclusión: la enseñanza de primeros auxilios en educación para la salud afecta positivamente los niveles de conocimiento y habilidad de los maestros. Descriptores: Maestros; Primeros Auxilios; Educación en Salud; Salud Escolar; Conocimiento; Intervención Precoz.

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Section: Consideringsupporting

confidence: 78%

Primeiros socorros: objeto de educação em saúde para professores

Silva

Nunes

Costa

2018

Rev enferm UFPE on line.

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“…A more drastic presentation on the possibility of death might have increased awareness of this. In general, gaining extra Wait and see 16 (13) 17 (14) knowledge can reduce fears, but knowing that a seizure could have a fatal outcome could generate fears and cause adults to overprotect children with epilepsy and reduce social participation (16,17). Children have to be kept out of harm's way, but they also need to participate in their peer group activities as much as possible and teaching programmes should enable teachers to find the right balance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Providing teachers with education on epilepsy increased their willingness to handle acute seizures in children from one to 10 years of age

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“…24,25 Teachers are not the only group who need more training in this measure. Half of the teachers rolled the seizing person on their side which needs improvement as it is a life-saving first-aid measure.…”

Section: First-aid Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of teachers did not take this measure in some other studies either. 24,25 Teachers are not the only group who need more training in this measure. In a study in Tehran, only 15% of parents positioned their child onto their side during a convulsion.…”

Section: First-aid Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge, attitudes, and first-aid measures about epilepsy among primary school teachers in northern Iran

Kolahi

Ghorbanpur-Valukolaei

Abbasi‐Kangevari

et al. 2018

Acta Neurol Scand

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The level of total knowledge score of 25 (7.7%) teachers was very high, 140 (43.3%) high, 141 (43.8%) moderate, and 17 (5.2%) low. The mean score about general knowledge was as follows: 6.1 (1.9), range = 0-9; causes 6.3 (1.9), range = 0-10; symptoms of seizures 8.5 (2.5), range = 0-12; and first-aid measures 6.8 (2.0), range = 0-11. Some 83% knew not taking anticonvulsants regularly could trigger seizures, and all teachers said a person with epilepsy should go see a physician. Attitudes were generally positive except for marriage and having children. The level of first-aid measures score of 8 (7.2) teachers was very high, 79 (70.5) high, 25 (22.3) low. Teachers with teaching experience at special schools took more helpful measures CONCLUSIONS: The knowledge of teachers about epilepsy was insufficient, attitudes toward people with epilepsy were generally positive, and first-aid measures at the last witnessed seizure were fairly helpful. Having teaching experience in special schools had a positive influence over knowledge and taking appropriate first-aid measure at time of the last witnessed seizure.

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Evaluating the impact of comprehensive epilepsy education programme for school teachers in Chandigarh city, India

Abstract: The epilepsy intervention educational package provided a positive, short term, impact on the knowledge and skills of teachers about epilepsy. There is a need for regular workshops to improve and reinforce the knowledge and skills of the teachers about health problems like epilepsy.

Cited by 51 publications

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Primeiros socorros: objeto de educação em saúde para professores

Primeiros socorros: objeto de educação em saúde para professores

Providing teachers with education on epilepsy increased their willingness to handle acute seizures in children from one to 10 years of age

Knowledge, attitudes, and first-aid measures about epilepsy among primary school teachers in northern Iran

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