AlQahtani Moath A, Alfadhel Shoog F, Aljehani Rawan H, Bakri Khalid A, Ahmed Zaina F, Elemem Maryam O, Alrouh Salwa M, Baker Lubna W, Khalifa Ammar
Medical Student of AlMaarefa University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Medical Intern, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences KSAU-HS, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jan 28;9(1):202-205. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_928_19. eCollection 2020 Jan.
First aid is the first treatment a health care worker provides at the site of an accident to a patient who is injured or very sick before the ambulance arrives. First aid providers are those who have the skill and knowledge to deal with life-threatening conditions outside the facilitated environment of a hospital. This study aims to assess the knowledge of first aid among university students in Saudi Arabia.
An observational descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from 17 August 2018 until 2 February 2019 on Saudi universities' students, including medical and nonmedical students and excluding postgraduate. The sample size was 384 students using a cluster sampling technique. The questionnaire was developed specifically for the purpose of this study after searching the literature and consulting an epidemiologist. It contains questions that assess the level of knowledge regarding first aid. It was subjected to a prop to test for validity and liability. Data were analyzed using (SPSS, version 22.0) and ( values of ≤ 0.05) considered significant. The consent was obtained before data collection.
Only 40.35% (157/389) of the total participants had basic life support (BLS) course in their college syllabus. Good knowledge was generally observed in both medical (61.2%) and nonmedical (53.2%) student participants. Medical students' knowledge regarding first aid was better than nonmedical students in all questions, whereas the results were not statistically significant.
Medical students were more familiar with the knowledge of first aid than other colleges' students. Researches should investigate the willingness of medical students to apply their first aid knowledge when necessary using a health belief model.
急救是医护人员在救护车到达之前，在事故现场对受伤或病情严重的患者进行的首次治疗。急救提供者是指那些在医院便利环境之外具备处理危及生命状况的技能和知识的人员。本研究旨在评估沙特阿拉伯大学生的急救知识。
于2018年8月17日至2019年2月2日对沙特各大学的学生进行了一项观察性描述性横断面研究，包括医学和非医学专业学生，不包括研究生。采用整群抽样技术，样本量为384名学生。在检索文献并咨询流行病学家后，专门为本研究目的编制了问卷。问卷包含评估急救知识水平的问题。对问卷进行了效度和信度检验。使用（SPSS，版本22.0）分析数据，（P值≤0.05）被视为具有统计学意义。在数据收集前获得了知情同意。
在所有参与者中，只有40.35%（157/389）在其大学课程大纲中有基础生命支持（BLS）课程。医学专业（61.2%）和非医学专业（53.2%）的学生参与者总体上急救知识掌握良好。在所有问题上，医学专业学生的急救知识都优于非医学专业学生，但结果无统计学意义。
医学专业学生比其他专业学生更熟悉急救知识。研究应使用健康信念模型调查医学专业学生在必要时应用急救知识的意愿。
