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Primary school teachers' knowledge and attitudes about food allergy

İlköğretim okulu öğretmenlerinin besin allerjisi konusunda bilgi düzeyleri ve davranışları

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These results show the need for a national food allergy management plan that will be useful to reduce risk of allergic attacks as well as to educate teachers.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Objective: Every year, one in 25 children experiences a food allergy attack which mostly occur in school age children in schools.
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Key Findings & Data:In this study, we aimed to investigate primary school teachers’ knowledge and attitudes about food allergy.
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Conclusion & Impact:These results show the need for a national food allergy management plan that will be useful to reduce risk of allergic attacks as well as to educate teachers.
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Objective: Every year, one in 25 children experiences a food allergy attack which mostly occur in school age children in schools. In this study, we aimed to investigate primary school teachers’ knowledge and attitudes about food allergy. Materials and Methods: Primary school teachers in central Erzurum completed a self-administered questionnaire with a 27 item. Results: A total of 191 teachers from 16 elementary schools were questioned. Median number of students was 4803, and number of students with food allergy according to the teachers was 13 (0.3%). Almost one third of them were able to define mild and severe symptoms of food allergy, and 35.1% of them were aware of that food allergy co- uld be life threatening. The teachers’ responses on what would be their initial reaction in the event of an food allergic reaction were: “he/she didn’t know what to do in 70.3%, call his/her family in 7.3%, would make her regurgigate in 6.3%, would call the emergency service in 4.2%, notify the school nurse in 3.1%, would give food like milk against poisoning in 2.6%, would give anti-allergic drug in 1 person”. Only 5.8% of teachers knew the presence of medical drugs at school, and 6.1% of them reported that the medication was applied by nurses in schools. Most of them thought that the lunch given at school might not be safe for food allergic children, and 85.9% of them complaint about inadequate information from parents of food allergic students. The ratio of awareness of epinephrine auto-injector was 8.4%. Conclusion: Primary school teachers’ knowledge about food allergy was inadequate, and the equipment for an intervention of food allergy attack was insufficient at schools. These results show the need for a national food allergy management plan that will be useful to reduce risk of allergic attacks as well as to educate teachers.

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Giriş: Her yıl 25 çocuktan birisi besin allerjisi atağı yaşamakta olup, bu atakların çoğu okul çağında ve çocuk okuldayken ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı ilköğretim okulu öğretmenlerinin besin allerjisi konusundaki bilgi düzeylerini ve davranış- larını araştırmaktır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Erzurum il merkezi ilköğretim okulu öğretmenlerine, 27 sorudan oluşan kendilerinin doldurduğu bir anket uygulandı. Bulgular: On altı farklı ilköğretim okulundan toplam 191 öğretmen çalışmaya katıldı. Okullardaki ortalama öğrenci sayısı 4803 ve öğretmenlere göre besin allerjisi olan öğrenci sayısı 13 (%0.3) idi. Yaklaşık üçte biri besin allerjisine bağlı hafif ve ciddi belirtileri tanımlayabildi ve %35.1’i besin allerjisinin hayatı tehdit edebileceğinin farkındaydı. Öğ- retmenlerin besin allerjisi reaksiyonuyla karşılaştıklarında verecekleri tepkiler şöyleydi: “%70.3’ü bilmiyorum, %7.3’ü ailesine haber veririm, %6.3’ü kustururum, %4.2’si acil servisi ararım, %3.1’i hemşireyi çağırırım, %2.6’sı süt gibi zehirlenmeye iyi gelen gıdalar veririm, 1 kişi ise antiallerjik ilaç veririm”. Öğretmenlerin sadece %5.8’i okulda ilaç bulunduğunu ve %6.1’i ilaçların hemşireler tarafından uygulandığını belirtti. Katılımcıların çoğu okulda verilen yemeklerin besin allerjisi olan çocuklar için güvenli olmayabileceğini ve %85.9’u besin allerjili çocukların ebeveynlerinin kendilerini yetersiz bilgilendirmesinden yakındı. Epinefrin otoenjektöründen haberdar olma oranı %8.4 idi. Sonuç: İlköğretim okulu öğretmenlerinin besin allerjisi konusundaki bilgi düzeyleri düşük ve besin allerjisi atağına okullardaki müdahale koşulları yetersizdi. Bu sonuçlar, allerji atak riskini azaltacak ve öğretmenleri eğitecek ulusal besin allerjisi müdahale planı ihtiyacını göstermektedir.

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BAÇÇIOĞLU, A., SÖĞÜT, A., KILIÇ, Ö., BEYHUN, N. E., ÇAYIR, A., ÖZKAN, B. (2013). Primary school teachers' knowledge and attitudes about food allergy. Astım Allerji İmmünoloji, Cilt: 11 - Sayı: 3, 185–192. https://ajindex.com/articles/158152

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