Abstract:Objective To examine the status and influence factors of emergency knowledge and skills among occupational population in Beijing and to provide evidences for making effective strategies and intervention measures. Methods A number of 777 persons aged over 18 in Beijing city were selected with multi-stage cluster sampling method and investigated with a face-to-face questionnaire survey. Results Among 777 persons, 471(47.7%) were male and 516 (52.3%) were female; the mean age was 36.74; 51.5% persons had at least bachelor degree; 66.8% persons were from city; the nationality was mainly Han. Survey results showed that the average score was (0.73 ± 0.16), and fire related score was the highest and first aid related score was the lowest, which were (0.91 ± 0.19) and (0.19 ± 0.32) respectively. The scores of female were higher than that of male in every respect. Among different occupational populations, score of hygienic personnel was the highest except fire-related. Female, 30-39 years old, bachelor degree or above, from nuclear family, hygienic personnel, living in buildings with elevators, living in city, and experience of emergency education, training or drill had higher ratio on emergency knowledge and skills with 44.5%, 40.1%, 44.2%, 39.1%, 72.0%, 41.7%, 39.2%, 48.8% and 54.8% respectively. Logistic regression analyse showed that the influence factors were gender, educational level, nationality, occupation and drill experience. Conclusions The level of emergency knowledge and skills among occupational population in Beijing city was relatively low, especially levels of first-aid related knowledge and skills. More focus should be put on males, lower educational population and minority nationalities to improve the emergency knowledge and skills in the future.
