An interventional study of first aid education in First Aid Education for Road Traffic Crashes, sponsored by Universiti Putra Malaysia. Completed at 1 site in Rwanda. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-11-16.
Sponsored by Universiti Putra Malaysia · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
Prehospital management after road traffic crashes(RTC) is a predicting factor to patient outcomes especially in Low-Income Countries where emergency medical services are lacking. This may explain the high mortality related to RTC in Rwanda for instance, where the delay to reach the hospital of these victims was found as an independent factor to death . For that reason, this study hypothesizes that the training of non -professionals as commercial motorcyclists could help to reduce trauma-related mortality and morbidity in Rwanda.
The protocol general objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of road traffic crashes first -aid education on knowledge, attitudes, and practice among commercial motorcyclists in Kigali-City, Rwanda.
Hypotheses are:
Specific objectives are:
To evaluate the effect of road traffic crashes' first-aid education on knowledge, attitudes, and practice of commercial motorcyclists after the intervention, within and between the intervention and control group.
n = {[z(1-α/2) *√2 P̄ (1- P̄)] + [z(1-β)*√P1(1-P1) + P2 (1-P2)]}2 (P1-P2)2 The total number of participants is 200.
Study procedure:
For the questionnaire, a pre-test on first aid will be done to the intervention and control groups before education intervention to measure the baseline level of knowledge attitudes and reported practice. In addition, a post-test immediately after education intervention will follow to assess the effectiveness of the educational intervention provided. The same evaluation will be conducted after four months of this training.
-Data analysis: SPSS version 25 will be used to analyze data. The first objective will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square. For the second objective, multiple logistic regression will be used to determine the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and level of knowledge, attitude, and practice among commercial motorcyclists. Lastly, One way repeated ANOVA will be used to evaluate the relationship between first aid education intervention and level of knowledge, attitudes, and practice of commercial motorcyclists between pre and post-test scores. A P-value less than 0.05 will be considered statistically significant.
-Sensitivity analysis: Intention -to- treat( ITT) and per-protocol (PP) analyses will be used to determine the effect of dropout and non-response. The differences between the coefficients found from these two analyses will then calculated and stated as percentages.
Variables:
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Exclusion Criteria:
It is an education module aiming to address the topics related to first aid: Recognizing emergency, Call for help, Scene safety, Airway and breathing, Haemorrhage control, First aid kit, Immobilization of fractures and transport of injured people.
Other: first aid education
This education module covers the definition of the disease, types ways of prevention in working place, and its management
Other: first aid education
To teach commercial motorcyclists first aid for post-crash while waiting for medical team to reach the scene
Change of knowledge on road traffic crashes first aid
Knowledge outcome has ten close-ended questions assessing knowledge on first aid for road traffic crashes and each correct question will score one while the incorrect will score zero. Knowledge will be categorized into 3 categories: Good knowledge: refers to eight to ten correct answers out of ten. Fair knowledge: five to seven score out of ten whereas four and less out of ten is considered as low knowledge.
Time frame: immediate post intervention and after 4 months
Change in attitudes on road traffic crashes first aid
To assess attitudes, a five point likert scale on 7 questions will be done .( Strongly agree, agree , unsure, disagree ,and strongly disagree). Attitudes answers will be stratified into two groups: Strongly agree and agree will represent positive attitudes whereas disagree, unsure and strongly disagree will stand for negative attitudes
Time frame: immediate post interventions and after 4 months
Change in reported practice toward first aid provision
Regarding reported practice, four open questions will be given. The reported practice will refer to two clusters for correct and incorrect reported practices.
Time frame: immediate post interventions and after 4 months
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