Few of high school and college students know how to use a defibrillator and practice first aid, according to a survey.
In terms of first aid, young people are slightly dropped. According to a study conducted by OpinionWay for SMEREP, there are very few students and high school students trained in first aid techniques, even though many of them have been faced with emergency situations where these actions would have been very useful. …
Thus, nearly half of the students questioned (45%) declared that they did not know how to use a defibrillator. This figure even reaches 51% for students from Ile-de-France. There is a deterioration compared to last year for young Ile-de-France residents (45%).
As for high school students, 65% of them say they do not know how to use this tool. For high school students in Ile-de-France, this figure reaches 72%.
Forgotten training?
Which is quite regrettable: studies show that training the population, young or not, to handle a defibrillator significantly reduces mortality in public places – streets, transport, sports halls, etc.
Another lesson from this survey: young people are poorly trained in first aid. More than 40% of French high school students say they have not had any training in these gestures. “Worse still, if we focus on Ile-de-France, this figure reaches nearly 50%”, we can read.
However, 70% of high school students claiming to have been trained to specify that this training took place in college … Have the others forgotten?
Concerning the French students, the results are also disappointing, since they are 20% to declare not to have taken part in a training in the gestures of first aid, even if last year, they were 28%. And yet, 31% of students and 17% of high school students have already had to practice first aid!
Free training
Faced with this observation, since last year SMEREP has set up free training courses open to all students on first aid actions to be applied in different situations. In addition, each of its reception points has a defibrillator.
For 2017/2018, SMEREP will offer free new first aid training courses (1). The program and schedule will be discovered soon, the insurer said. Note that the Paris City Hall also organizes free training.
Moreover, adults do not do better than the youngest: only one in two French people is trained in first aid. The Red Cross recently launched an application allowing you to learn these gestures in a few minutes.
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