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Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong

BACKGROUND: Accidental injuries are the leading cause of deaths and disabilities in children globally and most of them occur at home. To save life and prevent sequelae, domestic helpers (DHs) require providing emergency management (i.e., first aid) to children involved in home accidents. However, th...

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Autores principales: Ho, Jonathan Ka-Ming, Chung, Jessie Yuk-Seng, Cheung, Shu-Nam, Pang, Winnie Wing-Yan, Yau, Po-Yi, Lam, Simon Ching
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9627280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36340717
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.997834
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author Ho, Jonathan Ka-Ming
Chung, Jessie Yuk-Seng
Cheung, Shu-Nam
Pang, Winnie Wing-Yan
Yau, Po-Yi
Lam, Simon Ching
author_facet Ho, Jonathan Ka-Ming
Chung, Jessie Yuk-Seng
Cheung, Shu-Nam
Pang, Winnie Wing-Yan
Yau, Po-Yi
Lam, Simon Ching
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description BACKGROUND: Accidental injuries are the leading cause of deaths and disabilities in children globally and most of them occur at home. To save life and prevent sequelae, domestic helpers (DHs) require providing emergency management (i.e., first aid) to children involved in home accidents. However, their self-efficacy in emergency management for children is rarely investigated. Hence, this study aimed to tap that research gap. METHODS: This study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. A convenience sample of 385 DHs was obtained in Hong Kong. DHs' self-efficacy in emergency management for children involved in home accidents was measured using a 12-item well-validated survey instrument “Self-Efficacy of First Aid in Unintentional Injury at Home”. The total score ranged from 0 to 48. A higher score indicates greater confidence in emergency management for children involved in home accidents. RESULTS: All the participants were women and most of them were aged between 31 and 35 years (N = 103, 26.8%). The mean score for DHs' self-efficacy in emergency management was 29.0 (SD 10.1). The three items with the lowest self-efficacy were managing bone fractures, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and providing artificial respiration. Bivariate analysis showed that DHs' self-efficacy was significantly related to their educational level, first aid training, caring experience, and working experience. Multiple linear regression indicated that DHs' educational level (β = 0.136, p = 0.001) and first aid training (β = 0.532, p < 0.001) were significantly predicting their self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: DH's self-efficacy of emergency management for children involved in home accidents was low, particularly in those severe situations and complicated first aid procedures.
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spelling pubmed-96272802022-11-03 Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong Ho, Jonathan Ka-Ming Chung, Jessie Yuk-Seng Cheung, Shu-Nam Pang, Winnie Wing-Yan Yau, Po-Yi Lam, Simon Ching Front Pediatr Pediatrics BACKGROUND: Accidental injuries are the leading cause of deaths and disabilities in children globally and most of them occur at home. To save life and prevent sequelae, domestic helpers (DHs) require providing emergency management (i.e., first aid) to children involved in home accidents. However, their self-efficacy in emergency management for children is rarely investigated. Hence, this study aimed to tap that research gap. METHODS: This study adopted a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. A convenience sample of 385 DHs was obtained in Hong Kong. DHs' self-efficacy in emergency management for children involved in home accidents was measured using a 12-item well-validated survey instrument “Self-Efficacy of First Aid in Unintentional Injury at Home”. The total score ranged from 0 to 48. A higher score indicates greater confidence in emergency management for children involved in home accidents. RESULTS: All the participants were women and most of them were aged between 31 and 35 years (N = 103, 26.8%). The mean score for DHs' self-efficacy in emergency management was 29.0 (SD 10.1). The three items with the lowest self-efficacy were managing bone fractures, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and providing artificial respiration. Bivariate analysis showed that DHs' self-efficacy was significantly related to their educational level, first aid training, caring experience, and working experience. Multiple linear regression indicated that DHs' educational level (β = 0.136, p = 0.001) and first aid training (β = 0.532, p < 0.001) were significantly predicting their self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: DH's self-efficacy of emergency management for children involved in home accidents was low, particularly in those severe situations and complicated first aid procedures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9627280/ /pubmed/36340717 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.997834 Text en © 2022 Ho, Chung, Cheung, Pang, Yau and Lam. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Ho, Jonathan Ka-Ming
Chung, Jessie Yuk-Seng
Cheung, Shu-Nam
Pang, Winnie Wing-Yan
Yau, Po-Yi
Lam, Simon Ching
Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title_full Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title_fullStr Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title_full_unstemmed Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title_short Self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
title_sort self-efficacy of emergency management of domestic helpers in pediatric home accidents: a cross-sectional survey in hong kong
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9627280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36340717
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.997834
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