A Health Education Intervention to Enhance First Aid Self-Efficacy in University Students: A Program-Based First Aid Training

Authors : Musa Özsavran, Büşra Ergen

Pages : 19-27

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Publication Date : 2025-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study was conducted to determine the effect of programme-based first aid training on first aid self-efficacy given to students who were studying in a university health programmes but had not taken a first aid course. This study was a quasi-experimental study without pretest, posttest and control group. The study was conducted with 210 students who were informed about the purpose of the study, participated in first aid training and completed the Student Information Form and First Aid Self-Efficacy Scale. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 25.0 program was used to evaluate the data. Descriptive data were expressed as frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, median, and standard deviation, and the differences between the pre-test and post-test groups of quantitative data were analyzed by Wilcoxon test. The mean age of the students was 19.43 years, and 72.4% of them had not received first aid training before. There is a significant difference between the median scores of Basic First Aid Self-Efficacy Subscale (Z=-9.133, p<0.05), Vital Support First Aid Self-Efficacy Subscale (Z=-9.940, p<0.05) and First Aid Self-Efficacy Scale (Z=-9.711, p<0.05) before and after the training. The scores of university students after basic first aid training are higher than before training. First aid training, a programme-based health education intervention, is meaningful and effective in increasing the first aid self-efficacy of university students.
Keywords : İlk yardım eğitimi, sağlık eğitimi, öz yeterlilik

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