Mapping the public first-aid training landscape: uptake, knowledge, confidence and willingness to deliver first aid in disasters/emergencies– a scoping review

TY - JOUR

T1 - Mapping the public first-aid training landscape

T2 - uptake, knowledge, confidence and willingness to deliver first aid in disasters/emergencies– a scoping review

AU - Heard, Claire Louise

AU - Pearce, Julia Michelle

AU - Rogers, Marian Brooke

PY - 2018/11/30

Y1 - 2018/11/30

N2 - While the public can play a vital role in saving lives during emergencies, intervention is onlyeffective if people have the skills, confidence and willingness to help. This review employed afive-stage framework to systematically analyse first aid and emergency helping literature from22 countries (predominately in Europe, Australasia or US). 54 articles were included in thereview and investigated public first-aid knowledge and uptake of first-aid training (40), publicconfidence in first-aid skills or willingness to help during an emergency (21); andbarriers/enablers to learning first aid and/or delivering first aid in an emergency (25). Findingsidentifying high levels of perceived knowledge/confidence and willingness to help supports thecontention that the public can play a vital role during an emergency. However, findingsidentifying low uptake levels, low tested skill-specific knowledge, along with barriers tolearning first aid and helping suggest a first-aid training landscape in need of improvement.

AB - While the public can play a vital role in saving lives during emergencies, intervention is onlyeffective if people have the skills, confidence and willingness to help. This review employed afive-stage framework to systematically analyse first aid and emergency helping literature from22 countries (predominately in Europe, Australasia or US). 54 articles were included in thereview and investigated public first-aid knowledge and uptake of first-aid training (40), publicconfidence in first-aid skills or willingness to help during an emergency (21); andbarriers/enablers to learning first aid and/or delivering first aid in an emergency (25). Findingsidentifying high levels of perceived knowledge/confidence and willingness to help supports thecontention that the public can play a vital role during an emergency. However, findingsidentifying low uptake levels, low tested skill-specific knowledge, along with barriers tolearning first aid and helping suggest a first-aid training landscape in need of improvement.

M3 - Article

SN - 0361-3666

JO - Disasters

JF - Disasters

ER -