Analysis of the knowledge regarding as well as the ability to provide first aid by teachers of secondary schools in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship

Wydrych Bartosz, Zięba-Szczepaniak Paulina, Nowak-Starz Grażyna. Analysis of the knowledge regarding as well as the ability to provide first aid by teachers of secondary schools in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(4):423-434. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2642841 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6839 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 28.03.2019. Revised: 30.03.2019. Accepted: 17.04.2019. Analysis of the knowledge regarding as well as the ability to provide first aid by teachers of secondary schools in the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship Bartosz Wydrych1,2, Paulina Zięba-Szczepaniak1, Grażyna Nowak-Starz1 1The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2 The Świętokrzyskie Medical Rescue and Transport Centre in Kielce 3The Zdrowie Medical Centre, ul. Karczówkowska 45, Kielce 25-713 Abstract Introduction: Despite the fact of completing various first aid courses, the course attendees often refrain from providing first and due to fear.Such barrier to provide first aid is usually created by people themselves through thinking that they will further harm the injured rather than help them. From a legal point of view every participant or witness of an accident is obliged to provide first aid. In urgent cases it is necessary to undertake the rescue operation in the first minutes after the accident. The aim of the study:The aim of the research was to examine the level of knowledge about providing first aid among teachers. Materials and methodology: The studies were conducted after obtaining the consent of the School Principals. The diagnostic survey method using the questionnaire technique was utilized in the realisation of this study. The results were elaborated on the basis of the data collected via a questionnaire survey research instrument. Conclusions:Women constituted the strongest group- 80%, men only 20%. 40 people participated in the study, out of which 5% were aged 25 or less and 95% were aged over 25 years. The respondents who completed undergraduate studies constituted 7.5%, whereas 92.5% of people had master’s degrees. The study shows that 62.5% of teachers have been employed for over 10 years, 22.5% have fewer than ten years of practice and only 15% have been employed for a period shorter than 5 years. The majority of teachers, i.e. 85%, have completed first aid courses. Conclusions: The state of the respondents’ knowledge about first aid is satisfactory. A large group of respondents know the current guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council. Key words: first aid, teacher, legal aspect