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Knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community, Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Burns in developing countries account for significant morbidity and mortality which have been shown by increasing burn first aid awareness. In general, flames, scalds, and contact burns are the most common causes, but in children scalds are the most common. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to...

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Autores principales: AlQahtani, Fahad Ali, Alanazi, Mohammed Ayed, Alanazi, Mohammed Khaled, Alshalhoub, Khalid Saud, Alfarhood, Abdulaziz Ahmed, Ahmed, Syed Meraj
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984679
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_382_18
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author AlQahtani, Fahad Ali
Alanazi, Mohammed Ayed
Alanazi, Mohammed Khaled
Alshalhoub, Khalid Saud
Alfarhood, Abdulaziz Ahmed
Ahmed, Syed Meraj
author_facet AlQahtani, Fahad Ali
Alanazi, Mohammed Ayed
Alanazi, Mohammed Khaled
Alshalhoub, Khalid Saud
Alfarhood, Abdulaziz Ahmed
Ahmed, Syed Meraj
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description BACKGROUND: Burns in developing countries account for significant morbidity and mortality which have been shown by increasing burn first aid awareness. In general, flames, scalds, and contact burns are the most common causes, but in children scalds are the most common. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to assess the general knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study. Data were collected in 2018 using convenience sampling technique. Saudi men and women age 18 years and older living in Majmaah were included in the study. Data were collected from 390 males and females. The sample size was collected using precision formula. Data were encoded into Microsoft Excel worksheets and imported to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS(®)) software for analysis. RESULTS: A total of 390 individuals responded to the survey. Regarding the demographic data of the study participants, 49.2% were between 30 and 49 years old. Most of them were females (71.8%). Regarding burn first aid knowledge, 82.6% of the study participants knew that the first thing is to stop, drop, and roll when your clothes catch fire, 43.8% knew to apply cold water if hot oil spills on the hands, 41.0% knew that all burn injuries must be treated at hospital, whereas most of them 78.5% knew never to apply raw eggs or herbs to burn wounds. CONCLUSION: The knowledge of Majmaah community toward first aid is found to be low in spite of most of the respondents having a positive attitude toward first aid. The majority of the study participants (73.8%) were well-educated and had a bachelor's degree.
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spelling pubmed-64362722019-04-12 Knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community, Saudi Arabia AlQahtani, Fahad Ali Alanazi, Mohammed Ayed Alanazi, Mohammed Khaled Alshalhoub, Khalid Saud Alfarhood, Abdulaziz Ahmed Ahmed, Syed Meraj J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Burns in developing countries account for significant morbidity and mortality which have been shown by increasing burn first aid awareness. In general, flames, scalds, and contact burns are the most common causes, but in children scalds are the most common. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to assess the general knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study. Data were collected in 2018 using convenience sampling technique. Saudi men and women age 18 years and older living in Majmaah were included in the study. Data were collected from 390 males and females. The sample size was collected using precision formula. Data were encoded into Microsoft Excel worksheets and imported to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS(®)) software for analysis. RESULTS: A total of 390 individuals responded to the survey. Regarding the demographic data of the study participants, 49.2% were between 30 and 49 years old. Most of them were females (71.8%). Regarding burn first aid knowledge, 82.6% of the study participants knew that the first thing is to stop, drop, and roll when your clothes catch fire, 43.8% knew to apply cold water if hot oil spills on the hands, 41.0% knew that all burn injuries must be treated at hospital, whereas most of them 78.5% knew never to apply raw eggs or herbs to burn wounds. CONCLUSION: The knowledge of Majmaah community toward first aid is found to be low in spite of most of the respondents having a positive attitude toward first aid. The majority of the study participants (73.8%) were well-educated and had a bachelor's degree. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6436272/ /pubmed/30984679 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_382_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Alshalhoub, Khalid Saud
Alfarhood, Abdulaziz Ahmed
Ahmed, Syed Meraj
Knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community, Saudi Arabia
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title_fullStr Knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community, Saudi Arabia
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title_short Knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among Majmaah community, Saudi Arabia
title_sort knowledge and practices related to burn first aid among majmaah community, saudi arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984679
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_382_18
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