Educational intervention in first aid for basic education students

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Monalise Mara Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Toledo, Luana Vieira, Moreira, Tiago Ricardo, Alves, Katiusse Rezende, Ribeiro, Luciane, Sá Diaz, Flávia Batista Barbosa de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
• DOI: 10.5902/2179769236507
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/reufsm/article/view/36507
• topic: Enfermagem; Emergências; Primeiros socorros; Educação em saúde; Estudantes.

Objective: to compare the knowledge of basic education students about first aid before and after an educational intervention on the subject. Method: quasi-experimental study, conducted with 67 eighth-grade students of a public school, during 2015, in a city of Minas Gerais. Pre- and post-test instruments were applied for data collection, which were later compiled in Epi InfoTM software version 7 and analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Results: there was a statistically significant improvement (P<0.05) in the participants’ knowledge after the educational intervention for most of the topics addressed. Conclusion: the educational intervention in first aid for schoolchildren was effective and demonstrated the emerging need to implement subjects that address these contents in the basic education curriculum.