Incidents That Require First Aid in Schools: Can Teachers Give First Aid?

• Published in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 456 - 462
• Main Authors: Faydalı, Saide, Küçük, Sibel, Yeşilyurt, Maide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Accident prevention; Adult; Age; Chi-Square Distribution; Child abuse & neglect; Children & youth; Families & family life; Fatalities; Female; First aid; First Aid - methods; First Aid - standards; First Aid - statistics & numerical data; Health services; Humans; Injuries; Knowledge; Male; Middle Aged; Original Research; Pediatrics; Poisoning; Preschool children; Preschool education; Public health; Quality of Health Care - standards; Quality of Health Care - statistics & numerical data; School Teachers - standards; School Teachers - statistics & numerical data; Schools; Schools - standards; Schools - statistics & numerical data; Students; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teachers; Traffic accidents & safety; Turkey; Turkey; United States > US; first aid; teacher; injury; children; accident

School-aged children are a risk group in terms of accidents and injuries, and these factors may be the primary causes of death in children. Teachers have important roles in preventing accidents and injuries and giving first aid. The purpose of this research was to identify situations in which teache...