Indonesia Conference Directory

An accidents such as burns can occur anywhere, anytime pre hospital. First-aid of pre hospital is one of the appropriate treatments to be carried out before medical practitioner or health services are obtained. The study aims to determine the effect of health education on the knowledge of pre-hospital first aid in healing the burns of teenagers at vocational school. This study employed Pre-Experimental design with One Group Pre-test Post-test design with cross sectional approach (Health Education by using power point) as the intervention given to the respondens. There were twenty one first grade students were selected as the sample from culinary program at vocational school by Stratified Random Sampling, in March 2019. The data were collected by using a self administered questionnaire was used to examine for knowledge that given before and after intervention. Among twenty one respondent 100% were sixteen years old. Data was analyzed using univariate analysis that showed the knowledge of teenagers were good. The health education conducted in fourty minutes through power point. Based on the Wilcoxon signed rank test, the health education about pre hospital first aid to manage burns was statistically significant increased the knowledge of teenagers at vocational school (p = 0.001). The median of pre-test were 15 and the post-test were 19. This study showed that the knowledge of teenagers about pre-hospital first aid at vocational school increase after having health education. Therefore, this intervention is an optimal step and it is expected to be a visible strategy to provide further information about handling the pre-hospital burns in teenagers.