Survey on knowledge,attitude and behavior of first aid among community residents

Objective To understand the knowledge,attitude and behavior of first aid among community residents in Nanchong city,in order to provide a scientific basis for the effective development of the popularization first aid knowledge of community residents in cities.Methods A self-designed questionnaire was applied to investigate residents of two communities randomly selected from the east,west,south,and north of Shunqing District respectively in Nanchong city,investigation method of door to door was adopted.The data of questionnaire was analyzed by Excel 2003 software.Results The knowledge of first-aid telephone number 120 was known by 94.3% of residents.80.8% residents could adopt the correct measures actively to respond the earthquake,the correct measures were adopted to respond the burning and food poisoning by 60% of residents;the emergency telephone could be dialed correctly by 46.7% of residents and the international emergency signal SOS was known by 43.8% of them;measures under emergent circumstance could be taken correctly by less people,especially cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) could be grasped only by 9.2% of residents,the treatment of snakebite,blood-stopping and CPR was taken the last three grasp rates.Less enthusiasm of learning emergency knowledge,the indifference of society for this and the bad results of popularity were considered by most of the residents as the difficulties of the popularization of emergency knowledge,the proportion of this three kinds of residents was accounted for 55.3%,43.5% and 42.8% respectively.Common family knowledge of first aid was hoped to be obtained by 69.9% of residents,and the emergency exercise on the spot was hoped to be popularized by 51.4% of them.52.2% residents learned the emergency knowledge from newspaper,family and friends were followed.Conclusion The situation of community residents grasping basic emergency knowledge is fairly optimistic.Most residents can identify the common emergent events of their daily life,but the operating ability is relatively poor,only a few people know how to cope with them.There is an urgent need to direct professional training volunteers with medical knowledge for community and to take effective teaching methods to popularize medical knowledge by various ways.