The Relationship between Knowledge, Perceived Self-efficacy, and Pediatric First aid and Basic Life Support Skills among Childcare Teachers
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knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, pediatric first aid and basic life support skills, child care teacherAbstract
This descriptive and correlational research aimed to investigate knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, and pediatric first aid and basic life support (FA & BLS) skills among childcare teachers, and to examine the relationship between knowledge and perceived self-efficacy with pediatric FA & BLS in childcare teachers. The participants included 85 childcare teachers at the Child Development Center of Mueang Lampang district, Lampang province, who were selected using multi-stage sampling. All research instruments were validated by six experts. The research instruments consisted of questionnaires about knowledge. The content validity index of the instruments was 0.8. The reliability KR-20 was 0.79 regarding perceived self-efficacy for the pediatric FA & BLS questionnaire and the skill observation checklist for pediatric FA & BLS. The content validity index for the instruments was 1.0, and 1.0, respectively. The reliability, using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, showed values of 0.90, and 0.83, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient.
The results of this study revealed that: 1) The participants' knowledge score of pediatric first aid and basic life support was at a low level (𝑥̅ = 4.71, S.D. = 1.65), the perceived self-efficacy scores for pediatric first aid and basic life support were low (𝑥̅ = 15.07, S.D. = 9.18), and the skill of pediatric FA & BLS scores were low (𝑥̅ = 7.24, S.D. = 3.28).
2) Knowledge and perceived self-efficacy had a significant positive relationship with pediatric first aid and basic life support skills (rs = .23, p < .05; rs = .49, p < .001). The results of this study can serve as baseline data to promote child care teacher’s knowledge, self-efficacy, and skills in pediatric first aid and basic life support.
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