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Effectiveness of Advanced Fire Prevention and Emergency Response Training at Nursing Homes

Version 1 : Received: 21 May 2022 / Approved: 23 May 2022 / Online: 23 May 2022 (10:43:18 CEST)

How to cite: Li, W.; Tseng, J.; Huang, H. Effectiveness of Advanced Fire Prevention and Emergency Response Training at Nursing Homes. Preprints 2022, 2022050300. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0300.v1 Li, W.; Tseng, J.; Huang, H. Effectiveness of Advanced Fire Prevention and Emergency Response Training at Nursing Homes. Preprints 2022, 2022050300. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0300.v1

Abstract

Background: In long-term care facilities, there are many residents who do not have the ability to seek shelter by themselves in the case of an emergency. Thus, it is extremely important that the staff of nursing homes are equipped with correct disaster prevention concepts, emergency survival responses, and hazard mitigation measures. Purpose: Discuss the intervention effectiveness of different fire prevention and emergency response trainings at nursing homes and the relationship and predictivity of awareness to self-efficacy. Method: Recruit staff from two nursing homes through purposive sampling, using a two-team pre-and post-test design to collect results from 41 individuals in the experiment group and 40 individuals in the control group. The research tool is the “Nursing Home Fire Prevention and Emergency Response Awareness and Self-Efficacy Scale,” to compare the effectiveness of advanced and general fire safety trainings. Result: After receiving improved advanced fire safety training, the total score and the result of the experiment group on fire prevention and emergency response awareness and self-efficacy had both performed better than the control group who received general fire safety training (p < .001); fire prevention and emergency response awareness has significant and positive correlation with self-efficacy (r=.601, p < .001), and awareness is a significant predictor variable to self-efficacy (p < .001). Conclusion/Practical Application: This study finds that the key to improving learning effectiveness includes adding fire science concept chapter when creating fire safety training material in order to strengthen basic awareness; fire safety training should comprehensively introduce all related duty responsibilities of staff fire defense formation, in turn enabling mutual responsive support for the needs of the site; also, to become familiarized with the knowledge requires appropriate frequency of training and enhancing the staff’s awareness to fire prevention and emergency response, which is the most important key of learning effectiveness.

Keywords

nursing home; advanced fire prevention; emergency response training

Subject

Social Sciences, Education

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