First Aid Management: Effectiveness of Training Program among School Children

Abstract

Accidents may happen anyplace at any time. First aid knowledge is the ways and techniques that are usedto perform practices associated with prevention and immediate response to health emergencies. The mainobjectives of the study were to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding First Aid Managementamong school children for experimental group and control group, to assess the effectiveness of trainingprograms regarding first aid management among school children for the experimental group and controlgroup, to associate the pre-test knowledge score with demographic variables for the experimental group. Theresearch approach selected for the study was the quantitative (quasi-experimental nonequivalent control grouppre-test -post-test only design) approach. A sample of 140 school children (70 experimental group and70control group) was selected by purposive sampling from selected school of Bareilly. The major findingsof the study showed that themean post-test knowledge scores (37.67) of school children regarding first aidmanagement was higher than their mean pre –test knowledge scores (21.67) with a mean difference of 15.88themean post-test attitude level (22.07) of school children regarding first aid management was higher thantheir mean pre –test attitude level (21.02) with a mean difference of 1.05 themean post-test practice scores(6.17) of school children regarding first aid management was higher than their mean pre –test practice scores(0.41) with a mean difference of 5.76.The Training programe was effective in enhancing the knowledge,attitude and practice of school children on first aid management. No significant association between post-testknowledge scores and demographic variables. The findings indicate that the training Programme on first aidmanagement developed by the researcher was effective in enhancing the knowledge, attitude and practiceof school children.