Developing a simulation based educational program on advanced trauma life support for pre-hospital emergency medical service workers

GÜRCÜOĞLU İ. Developing A Simulation Based Educational Program on Advanced Trauma Life Support forPre-Hospital Emergency Medical Service Workers, University, Graduate School of HealthSciences, Medical Education DoctoralThesis,Ankara, 2022. Thestudy is carriedout in order to increase theknowledgeandtheskills of pre-hospitalemergencyhealthcareworkersaimingtodevelop an education programbased on simulation in emergencytraumapatientsandapplyingthesimulationbasededucation programin realisticsettingstoevaluatetheparticipants self-efficacyperceptions, performanceandlearningeffect. Thestudywascompletedwiththequantitiveandqualitativedata in mixeddesignbetween 2019-2021 yearswith 41workerswhowerein KonyaProvinceHealthDepartmentEmergencyHealthcareStations.Whencomparedtheparticipants Sim-TİLYADeducation post-assesmentpointsandpre-assesmentpoints; theincrease in post-assesmentpointswasstatisticallysignificant (p <0.01). Thepre-assesmentpoints in Sim-TİLYADeducationand post assesmentpoints in TİLYADeducationwascompared; thepre-assesmentpointswerestatisticallysignificant (p <0.01). The levels of knowledge, skills were decresaed in time betweentheeducations. Focus group studies were carried out in qualitativeanalysephaseafterTİLYADand Sim-TİLYADeducation. The main themesuccessedfromthecodingmadewiththecontentanalysismethodare self-efficacyperception, requirement, theefficiacy of educationandthemethod of education. Thethemewiththehighestamount of data is "theefficiacy of theeducation" with 31.42% in TİLYADeducation. Thethemewiththehighestamount of data is "self-efficacy" with 36.36% in Sim-TİLYADeducation.