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Pediatric Online Disaster Preparedness Training for Medical and Non-Medical Personnel: A Multi-Level Modeling

Phung K Pham1, Solomon M Behar1, Bridget M Berg2

  • 11Division of Emergency and Transport Medicine,Children's Hospital Los Angeles,Los Angeles,California USA.

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
|August 22, 2018
PubMed

Insights

Online training significantly improved pediatric disaster preparedness knowledge for both medical and non-medical hospital staff. Repeated attempts enhanced learning, particularly for non-medical personnel in specific modules.

Area of Science:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Pediatric Healthcare

Background:

  • Disaster preparedness is critical due to terrorism and natural catastrophes.
  • Children are particularly vulnerable during disasters, yet healthcare systems have preparedness gaps.
  • Pediatric disaster preparedness knowledge among hospital staff requires enhancement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine knowledge acquisition in pediatric disaster preparedness among medical and non-medical hospital personnel.
  • To assess the effectiveness of a five-module online training course.
  • To identify differences in learning between medical and non-medical staff.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of archival data from an online pediatric disaster preparedness training course (July 2009-August 2012).
  • Utilized linear growth curve multi-level modeling to analyze module scores based on participant role and attempt number.
  • Included 5,773 participants (3,686 medical, 2,087 non-medical) with 44,115 module attempts.

Main Results:

  • Overall, participants significantly improved scores with repeated attempts in planning, triage, and age-specific care modules.
  • Medical personnel consistently scored higher than non-medical personnel across all attempts.
  • Non-medical personnel showed significant score improvements in disaster management and hospital emergency code response modules with repeated attempts.

Conclusions:

  • Online training effectively enhances pediatric disaster preparedness knowledge for both medical and non-medical hospital personnel.
  • Successive training modules can reinforce and improve knowledge acquisition.
  • The findings highlight the value of online platforms for broad-based disaster preparedness education in healthcare settings.

Keywords:
ICC intra-class correlationgrowth curve analysismedical personnelmulti-level modelingnon-medical personnelpediatric disaster preparedness

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