Beta
38998

Effect of First Aid Health Educational Intervention for Special Education School Teachers at Zagazig City

Article

Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Injuries rank among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. First aid does not substitute for medical care; they just are a temporary support until specialized care could be provided. Aim of the study: was to evaluate the effectiveness of first aid health educational intervention for special education school teachers at zagazig city. Subjects and methods: Research Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: El-Amal School for Deaf and Hard for Hearing, Intellectual School, and El-Nour School for Blind. Subjects: 60 teachers were recruited from the three schools. Tools of data collection for data collection: tool I. A questionnaire sheet consisted of two parts: Part A: Socio-demographic characteristics of the teachers under study, Part B: Teacher's knowledge about first aid. Tool II. An observational checklist used to assess the teacher's practice to first aid. The fieldwork lased from October 2015 to March 2016. Results: Showed that there were highly statistically significant differences in teachers' knowledge and practices regarding to first aid throughout intervention phases (P<0.001). The total mean score of knowledge among the study group increased from 28.58+19.15 in preprogram, to 82.83+14.67 immediately post program and 79.87+21.43, at 3 month of post program. The total mean scores of their practice increased from 24.58+33.19 preprogram to 150.37+30.60 immediately post program and 145.52+37.09, at 3 month of post program. Conclusion: This study results provided evidence that after implementation of educational program teachers' knowledge and practices regarding first aid improved. Recommendations: Health educational training to be performed at least annually for all special education school teachers.

DOI

10.21608/znj.2016.38998

Keywords

First aid, teachers, Special education schools, Health, nurse

Authors

First Name

Samia

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Farouk

Affiliation

Lecturer in Community Health Nursing. Faculty of Nursing. Zagazig University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

12

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

6270

Issue Date

2016-07-01

Receive Date

2019-07-04

Publish Date

2016-07-01

Page Start

99

Page End

115

Print ISSN

2090-6110

Link

https://znj.journals.ekb.eg/article_38998.html

Detail API

https://znj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=38998

Order

7

Type

Original Article

Type Code

837

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Zagazig Nursing Journal

Publication Link

https://znj.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023