DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES APPROACH SCALE TO TRAUMA PATIENTS

Abstract

Objective: It is the development of a measurement tool that measures the level of approach of prehospital emergency health care workers to trauma patients in a valid and reliable way. Materials and Methods: The research was structured in a descriptive style. The research group is pre-hospital emergency health care workers. Since participation in the research is on a voluntary basis, the sample in the research can be evaluated in the context of purposeful sampling. A candidate measurement tool form with 27 questions was created. Explanatory factor analysis, reliability analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. SPSS 26.0 and AMOS statistical software were used in the analysis of the data. A sample application was made with the developed scale and comparison analyzes were made between the scale scores of the participants and their demographic variables. Results: As a result of the analyzes, it was determined that the scale was a single factored 11-item scale. This structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability value of the scale was determined as 0.923. In the sample application, the awareness of trauma was found to be higher in the employees who received training on trauma and followed the developments and new publications. Conclusion: It was concluded that the developed scale measures the approaches of emergency health care workers to trauma cases in a valid and reliable way. For a better trauma approach, module trainings should be given to employees as soon as possible and updates should be made periodically.