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Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study

OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to assess the knowledge acquired by very young children (<6 years) trained by their own teachers at nursery school. This comparative study assessed the effect of training before the age of 6 years compared with a group of age-matched untrained children. SETTING...

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Autores principales: Ammirati, Christine, Gagnayre, Rémi, Amsallem, Carole, Némitz, Bernard, Gignon, Maxime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25239292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005848
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author Ammirati, Christine
Gagnayre, Rémi
Amsallem, Carole
Némitz, Bernard
Gignon, Maxime
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Gagnayre, Rémi
Amsallem, Carole
Némitz, Bernard
Gignon, Maxime
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description OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to assess the knowledge acquired by very young children (<6 years) trained by their own teachers at nursery school. This comparative study assessed the effect of training before the age of 6 years compared with a group of age-matched untrained children. SETTING: Some schoolteachers were trained by emergency medical teams to perform basic first aid. PARTICIPANTS: Eighteen classes comprising 315 pupils were randomly selected: nine classes of trained pupils (cohort C1) and nine classes of untrained pupils (cohort C2). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The test involved observing and describing three pictures and using the phone to call the medical emergency centre. Assessment of each child was based on nine criteria, and was performed by the teacher 2 months after completion of first aid training. RESULTS: This study concerned 285 pupils: 140 trained and 145 untrained. The majority of trained pupils gave the expected answers for all criteria and reacted appropriately by assessing the situation and alerting emergency services (55.7−89.3% according to the questions). Comparison of the two groups revealed a significantly greater ability of trained pupils to describe an emergency situation (p<0.005) and raise the alert (p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows the ability of very young children to assimilate basic skills as taught by their own schoolteachers.
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spelling pubmed-41702092014-09-23 Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study Ammirati, Christine Gagnayre, Rémi Amsallem, Carole Némitz, Bernard Gignon, Maxime BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to assess the knowledge acquired by very young children (<6 years) trained by their own teachers at nursery school. This comparative study assessed the effect of training before the age of 6 years compared with a group of age-matched untrained children. SETTING: Some schoolteachers were trained by emergency medical teams to perform basic first aid. PARTICIPANTS: Eighteen classes comprising 315 pupils were randomly selected: nine classes of trained pupils (cohort C1) and nine classes of untrained pupils (cohort C2). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The test involved observing and describing three pictures and using the phone to call the medical emergency centre. Assessment of each child was based on nine criteria, and was performed by the teacher 2 months after completion of first aid training. RESULTS: This study concerned 285 pupils: 140 trained and 145 untrained. The majority of trained pupils gave the expected answers for all criteria and reacted appropriately by assessing the situation and alerting emergency services (55.7−89.3% according to the questions). Comparison of the two groups revealed a significantly greater ability of trained pupils to describe an emergency situation (p<0.005) and raise the alert (p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows the ability of very young children to assimilate basic skills as taught by their own schoolteachers. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4170209/ /pubmed/25239292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005848 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Ammirati, Christine
Gagnayre, Rémi
Amsallem, Carole
Némitz, Bernard
Gignon, Maxime
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title Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study
title_full Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study
title_fullStr Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study
title_full_unstemmed Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study
title_short Are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? A comparative study
title_sort are schoolteachers able to teach first aid to children younger than 6 years? a comparative study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25239292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005848
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