Abstract
Abstract
 Background: Injuries are very common now a day and can occur at any point of time in a day to day life. Among them, injuries in school children rank a major part. The objective of this research to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice towards first aid and factors associated among kindergarten teachers.
 Methods: Institutions based cross-sectional quantitative study design was employed. The study was conducted in Bahir dar town, Amhara region, Ethiopia from March to May 2017. A Pre-tested and structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Binary and multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the separate and confounding effect for variables.
 Result: A total of 173 respondents were interviewed with a response rate of 93%. From the total respondents 97 (56.1%) scored above mean for knowledge question, In particular, subjects lacked knowledge regarding first aid for Human/animal bite (60.1%) was not answered correctly. Regarding practice out of all respondents, 128(74%) had faced the child in need of first aid. About attitude, all respondents (100%) felt good attitude towards giving and learning first aid. Service year (AOR=8.6, 95%CI0.035-0.399) and previous first aid training (AOR=2.5, 95%CI 1.138-5.570) were found to have a significant association with knowledge of first aid.
 Conclusion: The knowledge of kindergarten teachers towards first aid were found to be low while they have the good attitude towards giving first aid and receiving training on first aid. It remains necessary to increase their actual first aid knowledge and skills.
Highlights
It is compulsory, by law, that all companies should be organized and have their human resource trained in the first aid, in order to allow an effective intervention in this area
Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval was used to measure the strength of association and statistical significance was declared at pvalue
School teachers acting as the guardians of these students as long as they are in the school need to be equipped with the adequate knowledge regarding first aid practices
Summary
By law, that all companies should be organized and have their human resource trained in the first aid, in order to allow an effective intervention in this area. First aid is defined as the assessment and interventions that can be performed by a bystander immediately with minimal or no medical equipment [3] This one is a common incidence that on each occurrence an accident happens or every person gets injured, people around the injured person commonly become anxiety more than the victim himself. First giver is the immediate care given to victims of accidents before medical professionals arrive It includes self-help and home care if medical assistance is not available or is delayed. The First giver must be well trained on first aid and emergency control to save children lives and the first aider should have adequate knowledge and skills about what is he doing and be encouraging and reassuring to the victims [11]. The study focuses on teachers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated with knowledge of first aid at kindergartens the result will help as baseline information for the school, by evaluating the KAP of the teacher toward first aid and its associated factors, The teachers will be able to know their KAP status and to put their effort on it, The kids will be benefited while their teachers identify the gap in KAP and attempt to improve it
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