Evaluating the efficacy of full-scale and tabletop exercises in enhancing paramedic preparedness for external disasters: A quasi-experimental study
Ghadeer A. Alakrawi, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Juan Gómez-Salgado, Abdullah M. Alobaid, Mohammed Abahussian, Riyadh Alhazmi, Abdulmajeed Mobrad, Albaraa Jebreel, Saqar Althunayyan, Krzysztof Goniewicz · 2024
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Disaster drills come in two flavors: full-scale exercises with real vehicles and manikins, and tabletop exercises talked through around a map. Ghadeer Alakrawi and co-authors compared them head-to-head in a 2024 study of senior paramedic students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Forty-five students who had finished a disaster course were split between the two formats, both built on a multi-vehicle crash.
Right after the exercises, students rated their learning, trust, and the drill's usefulness on a standard scale. Both groups scored high on all three. The tabletop group averaged slightly higher, but the gap was too small to be statistically meaningful. The authors conclude the cheap format performs about as well as the expensive one, a useful finding for schools training responders on tight budgets.
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| CREATOR | Ghadeer A. Alakrawi, Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, Juan Gómez-Salgado, Abdullah M. Alobaid, Mohammed Abahussian, Riyadh Alhazmi, Abdulmajeed Mobrad, Albaraa Jebreel, Saqar Althunayyan, Krzysztof Goniewicz |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |