1Public Health School of the Health Sciences University Mongolia, 2MCA-Mongolia
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The purpose of the study is the assessment of the reality of first aid during road accidentsin urban and rural areas, assessment of knowledge, practice and the trend of population among riskful group andthe readiness of first aid facilities.
30 cases of traffic road accidentswere studied with an epidemiologicapproach; 64 drugstores and shops in urban and rural areaswere observedand in total 1068 rural and urban people were involvedin the study through action methods .
The percent of injured pedestrians was66.7%in the 30 cases and 23.3% of them could have been involved in first aid. Although first aid was conductedfor 40% of accident victims by accompanying people, drivers and other people, 66.7% of this first aid services were wrongly conducted, and there was no first aid service at all provided for 60% of the victims. There was no first aid material available in all of these cases. 50.7% of 1068 total participants who participated inthe assessment of knowledge, practice and trend of participants had no knowledge at all about first aid, although a quarter of the studied personshad attended training, 69.9% of them have never performed first aid before, one of every two participants of the study had no material for emergencies or faced problems as lacking knowledge and experiencesin first aid.There was afirst aid corner in 58.3 % of the observed drugstores and shops in Ulaanbaatar city and in 30.3 %in the rural places.
The results of this study demonstrate that the citizens have not enough knowledge, practice and trends to provide first aid during accidents and injuries and no materials for first aid were available. Training in first aid is requiredfor the citizens, a complex of first aid materials should be available in all drugstores and shops and its usage commonly improved.
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