Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness
Objective: Medical students and general practitioners have a vital role in disasters both in the “preparedness and mitigation” and “response and recovery” phases. To prepare students management of disasters as health professionals, the level of disaster preparedness perceptions of the students shoul...
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| author | Bilge DELİBALTA Abdul Samet ŞAHİN Enes BULUT Berkay YILDIZ Abdülkadir GÜNDÜZ |
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| description | Objective: Medical students and general practitioners have a vital role in disasters both in the “preparedness and mitigation” and “response and recovery” phases. To prepare students management of disasters as health professionals, the level of disaster preparedness perceptions of the students should be evaluated. So, the undergraduate medical curriculum can be structured to ensure the readiness of the students for disaster. The aim of the study was to determine the level of disaster preparedness perception of medical students.
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Faculty of Medicine of a state university. The population of the study consisted of students studying in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of the medical faculty which had a training on disaster module in the fifth year. The study was completed with the participation of 288 students. In the data collection process, “personal information form” and the “disaster preparedness perception scale of personnel working in prehospital emergency health services” were used.
Results: It was found that exposure to disasters, presence of individuals exposed to disasters in the family and environment, participation in disaster exercises, receiving disaster training, willingness to volunteer in disasters, the level of participants' perception of themselves as prepared for disasters, the level of perception of the disaster risk of the region of residence, were effective on the mean total score of the scale.
Conclusion: Disaster preparedness perception can be seen as a first step toward competency in disaster management in medical students. Conducting simulation-based well-structured training modules is recommended to improve the disaster preparedness perceptions of the students. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effect of simulation-based training in disaster management. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b545c671a4449358cd6c5c73ba741c12025-01-27T12:43:12ZengGalenos Publishing HouseBezmiâlem Science2148-23732025-01-01131718010.14235/bas.galenos.2024.61687Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster AwarenessBilge DELİBALTA0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-4463Abdul Samet ŞAHİN1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9512-8741Enes BULUT2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1579-6887Berkay YILDIZ3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-4206Abdülkadir GÜNDÜZ4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-9769Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Trabzon, TürkiyeSamsun Çarşamba State Hospital, Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Samsun, TürkiyeArtvin Çoruh University Health Science Faculty, Department of Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, Artvin, TürkiyeTrabzon Fatih State Hospital, Clinic of Emergency Medicine, Trabzon, TürkiyeKaradeniz Technical University Institute of Health Science, Department of Disaster Medicine, Trabzon, TürkiyeObjective: Medical students and general practitioners have a vital role in disasters both in the “preparedness and mitigation” and “response and recovery” phases. To prepare students management of disasters as health professionals, the level of disaster preparedness perceptions of the students should be evaluated. So, the undergraduate medical curriculum can be structured to ensure the readiness of the students for disaster. The aim of the study was to determine the level of disaster preparedness perception of medical students. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Faculty of Medicine of a state university. The population of the study consisted of students studying in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of the medical faculty which had a training on disaster module in the fifth year. The study was completed with the participation of 288 students. In the data collection process, “personal information form” and the “disaster preparedness perception scale of personnel working in prehospital emergency health services” were used. Results: It was found that exposure to disasters, presence of individuals exposed to disasters in the family and environment, participation in disaster exercises, receiving disaster training, willingness to volunteer in disasters, the level of participants' perception of themselves as prepared for disasters, the level of perception of the disaster risk of the region of residence, were effective on the mean total score of the scale. Conclusion: Disaster preparedness perception can be seen as a first step toward competency in disaster management in medical students. Conducting simulation-based well-structured training modules is recommended to improve the disaster preparedness perceptions of the students. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effect of simulation-based training in disaster management.https://www.bezmialemscience.org/articles/determination-of-medical-students-perception-on-disaster-awareness/doi/bas.galenos.2024.61687disasterdisaster preparednessmedical educationdisaster preparedness perceptionmedical student |
| spellingShingle | Bilge DELİBALTA Abdul Samet ŞAHİN Enes BULUT Berkay YILDIZ Abdülkadir GÜNDÜZ Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness Bezmiâlem Science disaster disaster preparedness medical education disaster preparedness perception medical student |
| title | Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness |
| title_full | Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness |
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| title_short | Determination of Medical Students’ Perception on Disaster Awareness |
| title_sort | determination of medical students perception on disaster awareness |
| topic | disaster disaster preparedness medical education disaster preparedness perception medical student |
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