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Teaching wilderness first aid in a remote First Nations community: the story of the Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative

OBJECTIVE: To understand how community members of a remote First Nations community respond to an emergency first aid education programme. STUDY DESIGN: A qualitative study involving focus groups and participant observation as part of a community-based participatory research project, which involved t...

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Autores principales: Born, Karen, Orkin, Aaron, VanderBurgh, David, Beardy, Jackson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.19002
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Orkin, Aaron
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Beardy, Jackson
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description OBJECTIVE: To understand how community members of a remote First Nations community respond to an emergency first aid education programme. STUDY DESIGN: A qualitative study involving focus groups and participant observation as part of a community-based participatory research project, which involved the development and implementation of a wilderness first aid course in collaboration with the community. METHODS: Twenty community members participated in the course and agreed to be part of the research focus groups. Three community research partners validated and reviewed the data collected from this process. These data were coded and analysed using open coding. RESULTS: Community members responded to the course in ways related to their past experiences with injury and first aid, both as individuals and as members of the community. Feelings of confidence and self-efficacy related access to care and treatment of injury surfaced during the course. Findings also highlighted how the context of the remote First Nations community influenced the delivery and development of course materials. CONCLUSIONS: Developing and delivering a first aid course in a remote community requires sensitivity towards the response of participants to the course, as well as the context in which it is being delivered. Employing collaborative approaches to teaching first aid can aim to address these unique needs. Though delivery of a first response training programme in a small remote community will probably not impact the morbidity and mortality associated with injury, it has the potential to impact community self-efficacy and confidence when responding to an emergency situation.
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spelling pubmed-34826952012-10-29 Teaching wilderness first aid in a remote First Nations community: the story of the Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative Born, Karen Orkin, Aaron VanderBurgh, David Beardy, Jackson Int J Circumpolar Health Original Research Article OBJECTIVE: To understand how community members of a remote First Nations community respond to an emergency first aid education programme. STUDY DESIGN: A qualitative study involving focus groups and participant observation as part of a community-based participatory research project, which involved the development and implementation of a wilderness first aid course in collaboration with the community. METHODS: Twenty community members participated in the course and agreed to be part of the research focus groups. Three community research partners validated and reviewed the data collected from this process. These data were coded and analysed using open coding. RESULTS: Community members responded to the course in ways related to their past experiences with injury and first aid, both as individuals and as members of the community. Feelings of confidence and self-efficacy related access to care and treatment of injury surfaced during the course. Findings also highlighted how the context of the remote First Nations community influenced the delivery and development of course materials. CONCLUSIONS: Developing and delivering a first aid course in a remote community requires sensitivity towards the response of participants to the course, as well as the context in which it is being delivered. Employing collaborative approaches to teaching first aid can aim to address these unique needs. Though delivery of a first response training programme in a small remote community will probably not impact the morbidity and mortality associated with injury, it has the potential to impact community self-efficacy and confidence when responding to an emergency situation. Co-Action Publishing 2012-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3482695/ /pubmed/23110258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.19002 Text en © 2012 Karen Born et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.19002
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