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 - 2019/9/16

Y1 - 2019/9/16

N2 - While the public can play a vital role in saving lives during emergencies, intervention is only effective if people have the skills, confidence and willingness to help. This review employed amfive-stage framework to systematically analyse first aid and emergency helping literature from 22 countries (predominately in Europe, Australasia or US). 54 articles were included in the review and investigated public first-aid knowledge and uptake of first-aid training (40), public confidence in first-aid skills or willingness to help during an emergency (21); and barriers/enablers to learning first aid and/or delivering first aid in an emergency (25). Findings identifying high levels of perceived knowledge/confidence and willingness to help supports the contention that the public can play a vital role during an emergency. However, findingsidentifying low uptake levels, low tested skill-specific knowledge, along with barriers to learning 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 only effective if people have the skills, confidence and willingness to help. This review employed amfive-stage framework to systematically analyse first aid and emergency helping literature from 22 countries (predominately in Europe, Australasia or US). 54 articles were included in the review and investigated public first-aid knowledge and uptake of first-aid training (40), public confidence in first-aid skills or willingness to help during an emergency (21); and barriers/enablers to learning first aid and/or delivering first aid in an emergency (25). Findings identifying high levels of perceived knowledge/confidence and willingness to help supports the contention that the public can play a vital role during an emergency. However, findingsidentifying low uptake levels, low tested skill-specific knowledge, along with barriers to learning first aid and helping suggest a first-aid training landscape in need of improvement.

KW - bystander intervention

KW - emergency helping

KW - first-aid training

KW - first aid in disasters

KW - lay bystanders

KW - scoping review

U2 - 10.1111/disa.12374

DO - 10.1111/disa.12374

M3 - Article

SN - 0361-3666

VL - 44

SP - 205

EP - 228

JO - Disasters

JF - Disasters

IS - 1

ER -