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Mapping the public first‐aid training landscape: a scoping review
Author(s) -
Heard Claire Louise,
Pearce Julia M.,
Rogers M. Brooke
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/disa.12406
Subject(s) - first aid , intervention (counseling) , training (meteorology) , first responder , medical education , medical emergency , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , psychology , public relations , business , nursing , political science , geography , meteorology
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 employs a five‐stage framework to systematically analyse first aid and emergency helping literature from 22 countries (predominately in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States). The review covers 54 articles that investigate public first‐aid knowledge and uptake of first‐aid training (40); public confidence in first‐aid skills and willingness to help during an emergency (21); and barriers to or enablers of learning first aid and delivering first aid in an emergency (25). The findings identify high levels of perceived knowledge, confidence, and willingness to help, supporting the contention that the public can play a vital role during an emergency. However, the findings also point to low uptake levels, low tested skill‐specific knowledge, and barriers to learning first aid and helping, indicating that the first‐aid training landscape is in need of improvement.