Development Model of Basic Core Curriculum on Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation (AED) for Senior High School Ratchaburi Province

Abstract

This research is a research and development with a mixed methodology with the objectives to study the curriculum Basic Life Support and an automatic external defibrillator (AED) using for senior high schools students in Thailand, explore problems and needs of basic life support training courses and automatic external defibrillators using in public senior high school settings in Ratchaburi province, and develop curriculum model on Basic life support and automatic external defibrillators for senior high school students. The population and samples in this study consisted of 5 specialists in emergency medicine services who knowledgeable in the basic life support and automatic external defibrillator using, 124 school administrators and teachers who teaching health education and physical education in senior high schools in Ratchaburi Province. Research instruments composes of questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guidelines for educational management curriculum on Basic life support and automatic external defibrillators. Data analysis used percentage, mean, and standard deviation and content analysis. The results showed that curriculum on basic life support and automatic external defibrillators (AED) using

in schools composted of 5 aspects: students, teachers, teaching, curriculum and administration. The subjects, health education and physical education teachers reported teachers had should be well trained on basic life support and automatic external defibrillators using and most schools have not enough teachers in this aspect. There was also a lack of teaching aids and budget for purchasing teaching aids. The results from questionnaire showed means score of the needs of educational management, as a whole, was at a high level, mean=4.25, SD=0.89. In terms of learners, there was highest level, mean=4.25, SD=0.71; for the curriculum content, teachers, teaching, and management were found at a high level: mean=4.17, SD=0.86; mean=4.11, SD=0.84; mean=4.02, SD=0.91, and mean=3.46, SD.1.14, respectively. This research result suggested that 6 aspects need to be improve for curriculum management approaches on Basic Life Support training and an automatic external defibrillator (AED) using. The guideline of basic life support and automatic external defibrillators (AED) using in health education and physical education curriculum should be followed guidelines: well prepared on teachers, curriculum, teaching aids and Administration/budget