Norsham Juliana et al.„ Int. J. Res. Pharm. Sci., 10(4), 3600-3607 ORIGINAL ARTICLE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES Published by JK Welfare & Pharmascope Foundation Journal Home Page: www.pharmascope.org/ijrps The knowledge, attitude and conৎidence on ৎirst aid response among childcare providers following FAT4CP© training in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia Sahar Azmani 1 , Nadia Mohd Effendy 1 , Izuddin Fahmy Abu 2 , Faizul Helmi Addnan 1 , Mohd Radzniwan A Rashid 1 , Abd Rahman Hayati 1 , Che Ilina Isahak 1 , Norsham Juliana *1 1 Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Menara B, Persiaran MPAJ, Pandan Indah, Kuala Lumpur-55100, Malaysia 2 Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Institute of Medical Science Technology (UNIKL MESTECH), Kajang-43000, Selangor, Malaysia Article History: Received on: 05.04.2019 Revised on: 09.07.2019 Accepted on: 15.07.2019 Keywords: Basic life support, Childcare, Emergency, First aid, Trauma injuries ABSTRACT Children daycare centres have nowadays become a necessity due to the guardians’ job constraint in this modern globalization era. Increasing demand of daycare centres showed ramiϑication on unintentional injuries at the child- care settings. The incidence is becoming more common and this may lead to a lawsuit for negligence. Failure to provide proper ϑirst aid response is one of the issues faced by the caregivers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the ϑirst study investigating the effects of ϑirst aid training and certiϑication on knowl- edge, attitude and conϑidence (KAC) among childcare providers in Negeri Sem- bilan, Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was given to 54 Negeri Sembilan childcare providers before and after they received a comprehensive module on the ϑirst aid training. The training comprised of three major compo- nents; basic life support, trauma injuries and non-trauma injuries. Through- out the training, participants were given a series of lectures, hands-on practi- cals and small group discussion on speciϑied topics from the module. Overall results showed a signiϑicant increase in knowledge, attitude and conϑidence (p<0.001) after the respondents’ had received the FAT4CP© training. The ϑirst aid training provided to the childcare providers was found effective and had successfully improved their knowledge by 12.5% and their conϑidence to per- form ϑirst aid increased by 20.0%. They are now more prepared and efϑicient at handling any emergency situations at childcare centres. Our results sug- gested that FAT4CP© training programme was able to increase knowledge, attitude and conϑidence of childcare providers in Negeri Sembilan to handle emergency cases. Therefore, the programme is suggested to be implemented at all childcare centres in order to improve and sustain the providers’ abilities in handling emergency situations. * Corresponding Author Name: Norsham Juliana Phone: +60342892431 Email: njuliana@usim.edu.my ISSN: 0975-7538 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v10i4.1741 Production and Hosted by Pharmascope.org © 2019 | All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Early childhood spans the age range between new- born stages and early years of primary educa- tion. This stage requires meticulous attention encompassing multitudinous areas of early stim- 3600 © International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences