TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF CLINICAL PHARMACIST IN EMPOWERMENT OF FIRST AID PRACTICE AMONG PUBLIC IN MANAGEMENT OF EMERGENCY CONDITIONS- A COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH AND SAFETY RELATED STUDY.

Mekkanti Manasa Rekha

doi:10.37591/(rrjops).v13i3.1232

Abstract

Background:There is inadequacy in knowledge required for handling emergency situations without a hospitalsetting in India as the people lack knowledge and practice in first aid and this happens becausethere are very few means of first aid education and training.Aim and Objectives: Aim to study the impact of clinical pharmacist in empowerment of Firstaid practices among public in management of emergency conditions: a community-based healthandsafety related Study. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the KAP of first aidpractices as well as the knowledge regarding medications used in emergency conditions amongpublic while providing basic hands-on training with the help of various counselling aidsandfeedback was taken regarding the same.Methods:A prospective, observational and interventional community-based study wasperformed between the age group of 16 -60 years in the area RT Nagar Bangaluru from Januaryto September 2022.Data collected from questionnaire was tabulated in Microsoft excel andstatistical analysis was conducted through descriptive statistics, Chi-square and Fisher’s exacttest.Results:175 subjects ranging between the age of 16 to 60 were undertaken in the study, out ofwhich 101 were male and 74 were female. We assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice ofthe topic regarding first aid before & after the study with the help of a questionnaire. The overallsubject score before the study was 38.7% which is 3384 points out of a complete of 8750 pointsand after study was 74% which is 6475 out of 8750 points. The knowledge about the topic ondrugs used in emergency condition was also assessed, the subjects before study had inadequateknowledge regarding the drugs used in emergency condition. Upon assessment, we saw that theknowledge among the subjects had a fair growth after the intervention.Conclusion:The present study attempted to highlight and promote the importance of first aidtraining and its practices among public in order minimize mortality rate and found that the firstaid training program was effective in increasing knowledge, attitude and practice regarding firstaid management among public. P- Value is <0.0001 which states that the following study washighly significant.