A Literature Review OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMULATION METHOD IN IMPROVING COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) ON ACCIDENT VICTIMS Novi Ratnasari dan Ridlwan Kamaluddin
Faculty of health sciece, Jenderal Soedirman University
Abstract
Background Basic life support is an effort made to sustain life when a patient or victim experiences a life threatening condition. Many people still lack an understanding of how to help accident victims they found. Therefore, people need to know about basic life support, especially for common people. Demonstrating a simulation or playing a role can improve ones understanding and knowledge.
Objective The purpose of this literature review was to review whether simulation learning methods on basic life support was effective to improve community understanding in helping accident victims.
Methods A Literature review was carried out using the PICO method which was selected based on issues, methodology, similarities and research proposals. Out of the six articles used, four articles used a pre experiment with one group pretest posttest design and two of them used a quasi experiment with one group pretest posttest design. The population was common people who have never gotten information about basic life support.
Results Based on the six studies obtained, the simulation method was very effective to be carried out in the community for learning basic life support knowledge and skills. Society, especially common people, will be more confident in helping victims because they already know about the concept.
Conclusion Emergency conditions for accident people would come at unexpected times and sometimes it was not the health worker who firstly helped, but the common people who did not yet know the procedures for handling victims correctly. So many victims were irretrievably dying when taken to health services. Therefore, using simulation methods was very effective in improving societys skills in basic life support.
Keywords: Accident Victims, Basic Life Support, Emergency Department, Simulation Methods.
Topic: Disaster, Emergency, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
