The Effectiveness Review Of The Elderly First Aid Skills With Community Comprehensive Intervention

objective:This research is aiming to improve elderly fist aid and self first aid skills, reduce pre-admission mortality and morbidity rate and improve the life quality through the comprehensive community interventions. Moreover, it could provide evidence-based practice theories to establish the standardized education system and effect review of elderly first aid knowledge and skill.Methods:Convenience sampling of180elders were drew from the community. The questionnaire survey was used to investigate the knowledge of first aid and self-efficacy of the elderly population in the community. The participants received a six-month comprehensive community intervention including lectures of first aid in different level groups; simulation model training in first aid and telephone follow-up at3month and6month. Results:The elderly knowledge, confidence and action competence level of self first aid have improved through community comprehensive interventions. It also enhanced the elderly consciousness of first aid, helped build and master the skills and promoted their initiation in active participating and learning the family first aid. Comparing the total score of first aid knowledge of different characteristics in the elderly, educational level and age have shown statistically significant (P<0.05).The elderly who were illiterate or have primary, and junior high school education level tend to get lower total score compare to the elderly who has the university degree and above education level. Comparing the self-efficacy total score of different characteristics in the elderly, all independent variable P values were greater than0.05. It has shown self-efficacy scores of different characteristics in the elderly were not statistically significant.Conclusion:1. The first aid baseline survey found that the community elderly self first aid knowledge is still far from satisfactory.2. Overall, the elderly first aid knowledge, self-efficacy level and willingness to participating has improved through the community comprehensive intervention.3. Comparing to different characteristics of the elderly first aid knowledge, there are statistical differences in education level and age. Therefore, health education should meet different requirement according to the elderly education level and age, organize regular, different level training or telephone follow-up according to different training effect.4、Community comprehensive intervention can consolidate the first aid knowledge after training. However it needs to expand the sample size and scope. It also needs study the intervention mode in a wider range of population.