The Effect of Disaster Training on the Perception of Disaster Response Competence

Overview

Due to the increase in disasters, humanity is facing an increasing threat to life and property. Disasters occur with little warning and can last for hours or months. Existing literature reveals that most nurses are not prepared for a disaster in the community. Continuous preparedness requires the involvement of staff and nursing students in the development, review and implementation of the disaster plan. The development of ongoing, easily accessible, engaging and realistic educational programmes is best for the acquisition of skills and competence. An experimental study with pretest-posttest control group The project is planned to be conducted with the fourth grade students of the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fırat University in a randomised controlled study model with pre-test-post-test control group. The population of the study will consist of the fourth year students of the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fırat University. The sample will consist of 90 students with 0.05 error, 0.95 confidence interval, 0.95 confidence interval, 0.6 effect size and 0.80 representation power of the universe with the power analysis. These students will be divided into 45 experimental and 45 control groups. In the first stage of the study, the experimental and control group students were asked to complete the "Personal Information Form" and '' Disaster response self-efficacy scale" will be filled. In the second stage of the research, the students in the experimental group will be given a detailed and planned training programme. After the training, the students

Natural disasters, which cause a large number of casualties, increase the workload and lead to disability of individuals, have always been an important public health problem. Natural disasters are unpredictable and often sudden events that cause great destruction and loss of life and severe psychological symptoms for survivors. Disaster preparedness refers to all previous action plans and efforts to establish a disaster response system before a disaster occurs. To be prepared, nurses need to have sufficient knowledge and skills to minimise the negative effects of a disaster, including trauma, infectious diseases, physical and psychological distress. However, there is evidence that most nurses do not feel adequately prepared for a disaster in the community. In a study in which the general knowledge levels of nurses in developing countries about disaster preparedness were evaluated, the knowledge and skills of nurses especially in the Asia-Pacific Region about disasters were found to be inadequate. In another study, it was reported that Iranian nurses had inadequate knowledge about disaster preparedness. Despite the increasing number of disasters all over the world and the warnings of international nursing organisations and the World Health Organisation about the preparedness of nurses for disasters, it is seen that the training of nurses for disasters is inadequate and studies on this subject are limited.