Taye, Tiruneh Tafere (2017) Assesment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of First Aid Associated with Fighting Accidents among Community Police Officers in Addis Abeba City, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
![[img]](http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF (Assesment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of First Aid Associated with Fighting Accidents among Community Police Officers in Addis Abeba City, Ethiopia)
TIRUNEH TAFERE TAYE.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (1MB) | Request a copy |
Abstract
Introduction: In Ethiopia at the national level Pre-hospital comprehensive emergency medical system is practically non-existent, With regards to making Addis Ababa a model city in emergency medical service system, memorandum of understanding has been signed between important stake holders, One of very important member of the task force is Addis Ababa police commission which could have a different strategy in violence and injury prevention. Law enforcement officers are frequently the first responders to incidents that involve serious personal injury to situations that require balancing both tactical and medical issues. With a minimum of knowledge and training, officers can take essential first steps that often make the difference in a victim’s ability to survive. Objective: To assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice to wards first aid related to fighting accidents among community police officers in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia, April, 2017. Methodology: A cross-sectional quantitative study was done among community police officers working in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia from December 2016 to June 2017, using a cluster sampling method 128 community police officers of the city was participated for answering questioners. Data was analysed using spss version 21.0 and lastly presented using tables and graphs. Result: Participants were 110 (85.9%) male and 18(14.1%) female with an average age of 28 ±7.42 (SD) with a range from 20 to 49 years. Fifty and one (39.8%) were trained previously on first aid from different institution. Twenty nine (22.65%) respondents pointed all possible sign of airway problems related to accidents and One hundred and eighteen (92.2%) had impression and will to give first aid immediately for fighting victims but some of them are uncertain. Most participant’s first action during first aid was only transfer to near hospital. Conclusion and recommendation: This study identified what is known, believed and done of first aid by study population related to fighting accident, and showed that there was gap on knowledge of assessment and management of air way problems and this far speculate lack of experience of identifying airway problem. On the other hand respondents have a positive believe and will related to application of first aid at scene. Adjacently this study makes recommendation towards referred would be providing continues comprehensive training for ever-changing first aid activities. This will be done further in collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental embodies.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 07:27 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2018 07:27 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8368 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |