Abstract:

Children are the future of every country and all societies strive to ensure their health and safety. Most of the accidents occur among the children during the age group of 5 to14, when they spend most of their time in the school campus. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40 percent of all sports-related injuries treated in hospitals. An average of the rate and severity of injury increases with a child's age. Injuries are responsible for nearly half of all sports injuries to middle and high school students. The aims of first aid are to preserve and protect life, prevent further injury or deterioration of illness and help to promote recovery. So, first aid training is necessary to protect the child and promote the recovery period thus to reduce the injury in schools. In this study, a research design selected was one group pre-test and post-test design which belongs to the quasi-experimental design. The samples of the study comprised all teachers working in the selected high schools and those who are fulfilling the inclusion criteria and 51 high school teachers selected in Simple Random Sampling Technique. The finding of the study overall knowledge of high school teachers reveals that 73.6% of subjects had moderately adequate knowledge, 19.4% of subjects had inadequate knowledge, and only 5.9% of subjects had adequate knowledge. After the planned teaching program, the overall improvement means the score was 26.6 with a standard deviation of 1.08. The paired “t” test value was -22.96 which is highly significant at p<0.001. The conclusion of the study planned teaching program was effective thus to improve the teacher’s knowledge and apply that while any crisis occurs in the school premises.

Keywords: Children, Planned Teaching Programme, Safety, First Aid Measures, Knowledge, Emergency Conditions, School Teachers

References:

[1].   Ali, S. A., Abu-Elseoud, A. R., Heybah, S. M. & Mohamed, A. A. (2010). Implementation of an educational training program in first aid for newly graduated nursery school teachers at zagazig city. Zagazig Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 3 (1), pp. 20--29.

[2].   Altintas, K. H., Aslan, D., Yildiz, A. N., Subasi, N., ElCcin, M., Odabasi, O., Bilir, N. & Sayek, I. (2005). The evaluation of first aid and basic life support training for the first-year university students. Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 205 (2), pp. 157-170.

[3].   Jain, N.C (2009). First aid and Emergency Care, India. A.I.T.B.S Publishers.

[4].   Polit and Hungler (2009). Nursing Research Principles and Methods, Newyork. Lippincott Publishers.

[5].   Ramesh Karmegam (2003), First aid to Ear, Nose, and Throat. Hydrabed. Paras Publishers.

[6].   Yaseen Khan, S. & Shebeer, P. B. (2012). Concise text book of advanced nursing practice. Bangalore: Emmis Medical Publishers.