An Interventional Study on Awareness Regarding First Aid and Fire Safety Among the Second Year Undergraduate Medical Students of BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad

Background: Providing first aid is helpful for the survival of victim. Medical students are taught to handle these emergencies in hospital setting where all facilities are available. However, this may not be adequate to deal with the emergency conditions (e.g., Road traffic accidents, fire) at the emergency site without hospital facility. Materials and Methodology: An interventional study was conducted on 50 students of the 2nd year from BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad. They were interviewed by pretested and predesigned proforma after that student were gone through 2-days training of first aid and fire safety and again interviewed by the same proforma. Results: The awareness among medical students about first aid was poor and about fire safety were average before the intervention, which was significantly increased after the intervention. Conclusion: Awareness regarding first aid among the medical student was poor and awareness regarding fire safety was average before the training (Intervention) while awareness regarding both first aid and fire safety was significantly increased after the training. Girls having more awareness regarding both fire safety and first aid compare to boys.