Effects of a psychological first aid simulated training for pregnant flood victims on disaster relief worker's knowledge, competence, and self-efficacy.
Appl Nurs Res
; 57: 151348, 2021 02.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-32893087
ABSTRACT
AIMS:
To develop a simulation-based psychological first aid (PFA) education program for disaster relief workers and verify its impact on their PFA knowledge, PFA performance competence, and self-efficacy.BACKGROUND:
Relief workers should be provided with systematic education on their required knowledge and skills; however, PFA training for relief workers is lacking, which results in ineffective mental health support during disaster situations.METHODS:
This study adopted a non-equivalent control group pre-posttest quasi-experimental design. Thirty relief workers from mental health welfare centers in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province participated. The experimental group received a PFA lecture, a simulation-based PFA education program, and access to the Psychological Life Support (PLS) mobile application, which provides information on disaster situations and PFA techniques. The comparison group received a PFA lecture. The control group was provided with self-learning PFA materials.RESULTS:
Among the three groups, the experimental group showed the greatest improvement in PFA knowledge, PFA performance competence, and self-efficacy from pretest to posttest, which was statistically significant.CONCLUSIONS:
This study demonstrated the effectiveness of the simulation-based PFA education program combined with a PFA lecture and the PLS mobile app as complementary methods to assist relief workers in applying PFA in disaster situations.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Relief Work
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Pregnant Women
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Floods
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First Aid
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
En
Journal:
Appl Nurs Res
Journal subject:
ENFERMAGEM
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article