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Project No. 205 (D-2004/5)First Aid Knowledge Among Kindergarten Teachers in Al Ain DistrictStudent Authors: Fatima Mohd Helal Srour Al-Kaabi, Aisha Ebrahim Obaid KhalifaAl-Mehari, Moza Mohd Abdulla Sarhan Al-ZaabiFaculty Supervisors: Prof. N. Norman, Dr. F. Al Maskari, Dr. M. Grivna, Dr. P. BarssAbstract:Aim To evaluate and explore the basic knowledge of first aid among Kindergartenteachers in Al-Ain district for both public and public kindergartens.Methods The study was a cross-sectional survey, 2004. The randomization was astratified one; all kindergartens in Al-Ain district were divided into private and publicentities. Each kindergarten was giving a number, which we then placed in a small bagand manually selected them. We had 13 choices of the public kindergartens, and werandomly selected 7 out of 13. In the private sector we had 35 choices and werandomly selected 14 out of 35 in which all kindergartens teachers were included inboth private and public schools. 138 out of 150 subjects participated in our studywhich was conducted in AI-Ain city. A self-administered questionnaire consisting of 26questions was distributed to the subjects for evaluating their knowledge in first aid.Results Out of our 138 participates (72% n=99) subjects have first aid knowledge,(48%) of them belong to the public kindergartens teachers and (52%) to the privatekindergartens teachers. (62%) obtained their knowledge from media, (29%) fromspecial courses and- the rest from other sources (e.g. parents, friends, relatives). Themost common emergency situation encountered in the selected kindergartens isbleeding with a percentage of (67.4%), followed by trauma with a percentage of(43.5%). It turns out that (98%) of the private kindergartens have a full time healthcare professional (nurse) in comparison to only (51%) in the public kindergartens.Unfortunately a quite large percentage of the public kindergartens have no full timehealth care professional (doctor, nurse) (42%). We noticed a significant differencewith a p-value of (p=O.OOO) in the correct management of some emergencysituations, such as managing foreign body, (61%) of the private kindergartensteachers answered it correctly while only (25%) of the public kindergartens teachersgot it right. Another situation is seizure management, (18%) of the privatekindergartens teachers got it right while only (1 %) of the public kindergartensteachers got it correct (p= 0.001).