| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國醫藥大學 === 護理學系碩士班 === 99 === Background: The unintentional injury is the first factor of child death at 1 to 14 years old. There are seldom studies focused on unintentional home injury first aid on children parent’s knowledge and self-efficacy.
Purpose: The purpose of study is to explore the knowledge and self-efficacy of unintentional home injury first aid in parents with children aged 0 to 4.
Methods: The study is a cross-sectional designed. A total of 445 parents were recruited. Data were collected by purposive sampling at the public health community center (8 districts) in Taichung. The measurement is a self developed questionnaire with 37 questions.
Results: 1. The result revealed that the mean score of first aid knowledge was 72.1%. The lowest score was the knowledge related with Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation. The participants who were older, higher education, Taiwanese, higher incomes, being attended first aid training, having learning needs, having first aid information from medical staffs, and school, had better knowledge of first aid. 2. The mean score of self-efficacy was 26.6%. Participants showed the lowest score of self-efficacy in choking. The participants who was male, Taiwanese, being attended first aid training, having learning needs, having first aid information from medical staffs, had higher score of self-efficacy in first aid. 3. There is a significantly positive correlation between knowledge and self efficacy of first aid. 4. The predictive factors of self-efficacy are knowledge of first aid, being attended first aid training, having first aid information from media, having first aid information from medical staffs, and having unintentional injury experiences. These variables explained as 30% of all variation.
Conclusions: The results suggest that the educational program of unintentional injury first aid need to be increased. First aid knowledge and related experience provided by health professionals would be better information for increasing the parents’ knowledge and self-efficacy of first aid.
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