Abstract:
School students are vulnerable to the risks of accidents and injuries and hence require first aid more
often than adults. The first responsible person to reach an injured student at school is the teacher.
The main objectives of this study were to explore the knowledge of primary school teachers about first
aid and to detect an association between the level of knowledge and variables of study. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was carried out in ten primary schools in Basra city. This study was started from
1st of September 2021 up to the end of April 2022 in order to assess the teacher's knowledge about
first aid. A probability (random) sample of (161) teachers males and females in the ten schools were
selected for the purpose of the study. A Closed-end questionnaire was used for the purpose of data
collection. The questionnaire contains three parts, the first part consists of 6 items related to the sociodemographic characteristics of the teachers and the second part of the questionnaire consists of 12
questions that are concerned with the teacher's knowledge regarding school teachers' first aid cabinet and
ambulance third part of the questionnaire consists of 26 questions that are concerned with the teacher's
knowledge about first aid. Analysis of data was made by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social
Sciences) version 20.
Results showed that 47.2 % were males and 52.8% were females. 54.7% were at the age interval (20 -
30) years, 27.3 % at age interval (31-40) years, and 18% aged 41 years and more. 41.6 % of the sample
were single and 58.4% were married. Regarding the educational levels, 41.6% had Diploma, 45.3%
university nurse and 13% had higher educational degrees.
Regarding the specialty of teachers, 16.1% Arabic language, 19.3 % social science, 13% English
language, 10.6% Chemistry, 26.1% Biology, and 14.9% physical training. regarding years of employment,
53.4% had 5-10 years, 35.4% had 11- 25 years, and 11.2 % had more than 26 years of employment.
Also showed the responses of teachers regarding their knowledge about first aid cabinet and
ambulance, the teachers had a significant level of information as a mean of scores regarding all items were
More than 2 teachers had insignificant knowledge regarding first aids where the mean of score was less than 2 except
For the item regarding the types of bleeding |
