Huỳnh Quốc Tín
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Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Background of the study
In every human life, first aid skill has always proven itself to be one of the most
crucial role, as it has the potential to stop the worse from happening. Every year,
150,000 lives are endangered, taken away due to the shortage of first aid
knowledge as well as skills; what an astounding number and yet it is a
heartbreaker. Encountering accidents is inevitable, because at some point in our
lives, we will eventually meet one, during that time, by-standers in the one that are
expected to join hands in such a life-threatening situation. When it comes to
performing first aid procedures, specific knowledge and skills are required; the
fewer information you know about first aid, the less opportunities you are likely to
help the patient to have any further damage or even escaping death. Accidents such
as traffic accidents, drowning, fire disaster,… happen almost everywhere in human
daily life, so does in Vietnam. Whenever an accident takes place, only few of the
patients could make it to the hospital in time and get access to treatments, the
others tend to make it to the hospital from 24 to 72 hours after, which can be
critical. Those who are not having access to the hospital care on time, performing
first-aid procedures is extremely fundamental as disabilities and fatal deaths could
be prevented using this method. Though this is a life skill that can help us to
improve the quality of our daily life, yet students have shown that they know very
little about this life skill. As a result, the objective of this study was to investigate
the difficulties faced by Huflit students.
1.2. Rationale
There are thousands of benefits that come along with learning first aid. For
example, first aid courses not only teach you about saving lives, but it also
provides lessons that can help you to out run emergency situatuons. Thus, these
skills should be well-acknowledged by students before graduating. However,
students at Huflit do not get their chances on learning these skills as they are not
included in the curriculum. Huflit rarely supported the subject for their students tu
participate in.
1.3. Statement of purpose
The study focuses mainly on the factors and difficulties which students at HUFLIT
face in studying first aid skills . The researcher hopes that its finding and
suggestions do contribute something to the whole process of teaching and learning
first aid skills at HUFLIT.
1.4. Limitation
The study will confine itself to collecting answers of questionnaire from students at
HUFLIT. Due to the time limit, the study just deals with the difficulties while
learning first aid skills.
1.5. Methodology
Quantitative is employed to conduct the research. The responses from the students’
questionnaire, which is sent to 50 students at the first stage of the research are
collected as valuable information to find out the difficulties in studying first aid
skills at HUFLIT. Consequently, the data are supposed to be fully analyzed to find
out the best answers to the research questions
1.6. Organization of the study
The research consists of five main chapters, not to mention the references.
 Chapter 1 provides (1) the background of the study; also included in this
chapter are (2) the rationale of the study and (3) the aim of the study, (4) the
study’s limitation and delimitation, (5) the methodology employed in the
research and (6) the organization of the study.
 Chapter 2 presents a review of literature related to the matters under
discussion which serves as the theoretical framework to the study.
 Chapter 3 describes the research design and the methodology employed in
the research.
 Chapter 4 analyses the findings from the students’ questionnaire.
 Chapter 5 draws conclusions and offers recommendation to the students.