ArticleBurns & trauma2016
Current knowledge of burn injury first aid practices and applied traditional remedies: a nationwide survey.
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- A systematic review of health care workers' knowledge and related factors towards burn first aid.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
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- Domestic Accidents of Children in the Orodara District of Burkina Faso: Mothers' Knowledge of First-Aid Practices.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Outcome Evaluation of Burn Injury Management: A Study of Selective Traditional Home Remedies.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Knowledge and Attitudes in First Aid Practices for Thermal Burns: a Cross-sectional Study Among Adults in Northern Greece.Materia socio-medica · 2023Article
- Assessing the Knowledge and Practices of Burn First Aid in Al-Baha Region, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2023Article
- Knowledge and Practice of Burn Management Among Physicians Using Burn Manikin in Ha'il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Knowledge and attitude of paediatric first aid among elementary schoolteachers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards burn first aid and its associated factors among caregivers attending burn units in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Epidemiology, aetiology and knowledge, attitudes, and practices relating to burn injuries in Palestine: A community-level research.International wound journal · 2022Article
- Primary care patients' perspectives on the use of non-pharmacological home remedies in Geneva: a cross-sectional study.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundBurn first aid awareness has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality. We present a report on the knowledge and practices of the Saudi population with regard to burn first aid and the application of traditional remedies.
methodsAn internet-based survey was conducted to assess the public's knowledge on first aid practices and home remedies applied for burn injuries among Saudi adults.
resultsA total of 2758 individuals responded to the survey. There were 1178 (42.7 %) respondents who had previously received burn first aid information. One thousand five hundred fifty respondents had a history of burn exposure in which burn injury first aid was applied as follows: 1118 (72.1 %) removed clothing and accessories from the injured area; water was applied by 990 (63.9 %); among those who applied water, 877 (88.6 %) applied cold water; and only 57 (5.8 %) did so for more than 15 min. Wrapping the burn area was performed by 526 (33.9 %), and 985 (63.5 %) sought medical assistance. When it comes to traditional remedies, 2134 (77.4 %) knew of and/or implemented these remedies as first aid or to treat burns. Honey and toothpaste were the commonest among these remedies with 1491 (69.9 %) and 1147 (53.7 %), respectively. This was associated with female gender (
conclusionsProper burn first aid is a simple, cheap, and accessible means of managing burns initially. Although the majority of the respondents were university graduates (51.1 %), knowledge and implementation of burn first aid was very poor. Major healthcare agencies should review and promote a consistent guideline for burn first aid in an effort to tackle and minimize the effect of this grave injury.
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