Conhecimentos e práticas de professores da educação básica de Barra do Garças-MT.

Abstract

There are numerous situations that require first aid care within schools, this is due to the structure of the environment itself that makes it susceptible to accidents’s occurrences. Therefore, the teacher is the one closest to the child when faced with situations that require urgent and emergency care, so it is extremely important that the educator has knowledge on how to act in situations that require immediate care. Thus, the present study had as objective to identify the level of knowledge in first aid of the teachers of the municipal network of basic education of Barra do Garças - MT. Exploratory descriptive study, carried out with teachers who work in the basic education network, chosen at random. Data collection was performed through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire, containing open and closed questions about the first aid topic. For data’s tabulation, the Excel spreadsheet of the Office 2016® program was used. A total of 39 teachers participated in the study, most of them female (92.3%), with a predominant age group between 35 and 44 years. 69.3% of the interviewees stated that they had not received any type of first aid training during graduation and 59% denied having received any training in first aid during their professional activities. 66.6% of those surveyed had already witnessed an emergency situation in the school, 71.8% of the teachers did not feel able to provide first aid at the school that works and 92.3% of the subjects would like to carry out some training in first aid . Of the accidents that occurred most in the school environment, the decrease was cited with greater occurrence (84.6%). 71.8% of the teachers do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers, and 30.7% do not know the proper conduct in the occurrence of fainting. 71.7% stated that conducting first aid training would be a good option for training them. The results of the research demonstrate the need for the qualification of primary education teachers in first aid, as a strategy for health promotion and prevention and guaranteeing greater safety with students in the school environment.