Jurnal Ilmiah

Community First Aid Training for Disaster Preparedness: A Review of Education Content

Disasters pose a substantial risk to people’s health and well-being on a
global scale. Community-based training on the initial response to traffic accidents has
a considerable impact on reducing morbidity and mortality. There is no information
on the most effective type of community-based training for such incidents or on how
to integrate this into disaster response. The goal of this study was to characterize the
content of first aid training and its effect on providing assistance during a disaster.
The MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science databases were searched. The
terms ”basic life support” OR ”bleed control” OR ”cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)”
OR ”first aid” AND ”bystander” OR ”layperson” OR ”public” were used. We chose
the general public as our sample. We included only publications that were available
in English and published between January 2000 and September 2021 due to time
and resource constraints. Four of the included studies were conducted in the United
States and one in Indonesia. The sample size ranged from 24 to 465 members of
the general public or bystanders. Community members gained increased knowledge
and abilities regarding disaster preparedness strategies and procedures. The first aid
training content focused on prehospital trauma care, including training on the ABCs,
dealing with disasters in the community, calling for help, identifying the location of
life-threatening bleeding and applying pressure, and packing a wound and applying a
tourniquet for bleeding control. A training program emphasizing both first aid methods
and inhibitors of behaviors to help in an emergency was found to be significantly
associated with increased rates of assistance during emergency situations.

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