沙特阿拉伯紧急医疗服务的灾难知识,技能和准备情况
Yasir Almukhlifi1,2, Gary Crowfoot3, Amanda Wilson4
1Emergency Medical Services, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
|October 30, 2024
概括
沙特阿拉伯紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 工作人员显示适度的灾难准备. 增加的年龄,经验和教育与更好的准备程度相关,突出了需要有针对性的培训.
科学领域:
- 灾难医疗 医疗 医疗 医疗
- 紧急医疗服务 紧急医疗服务
- 公共卫生准备 公共卫生准备
背景情况:
- 紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 人员对于灾难响应至关重要.
- 了解EMS工作人员的灾难知识,技能和准备能力至关重要.
- 这项研究侧重于沙特阿拉伯的背景,以确定影响因素和挑战.
研究的目的:
- 调查影响沙特阿拉伯EMS工作人员灾害知识,技能和准备能力的因素.
- 识别这些工作人员在灾难准备中所面临的挑战.
- 为提高EMS响应能力的战略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 使用"灾难准备评估工具"进行了一项描述性的横截面调查.
- 在沙特阿拉伯三个城市的军医和政府医院,从272名EMS工作人员那里收集了数据.
- 用6点利克特级别的描述性和推断性统计数据分析了答案.
主要成果:
- 紧急救援系统工作人员报告说,他们的灾难知识 (3.56),技能 (3.44) 和准备能力 (3.73) 中等水平.
- 在灾难演习 (4.24) 和对进一步教育 (5.43) 的强烈兴趣中,参与度很高.
- 在准备和年龄,经验,教育和设施类型之间发现了显著的正相关性.
结论:
- 沙特阿拉伯的EMS工作人员具有适度的灾害准备能力,受人口因素的影响.
- 显然需要加强对生物恐怖主义等事件的EMS准备能力的培训和投资.
- 人口特征对EMS人员的知识,技能和准备水平起着重要作用.
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