Knowledge levels of personnels who work at stations of 112 emergency health services of province of Canakkale on disaster medicine

Purpose:to reveal the knowledge levels of the personnels who work at the stations of çanakkale 112 emergency health services on disaster medicine and some factors in connection with primarily education. materials and methods: this sudy is a analytic research in the cross sectional nature. the scope of the research covers the all personnels who work at the stations of çanakkale 112 emergency health services. we reached a total of 260 people out of 328 ( 79.2 %). the dependent variable, disaster medicine, is at the knowledge level. the variables related to education are basic independent variables. the sociodemographic features, the vocational experience and the experience of response to disaster are the other independant variables. the data has been combined by the method of questionaire and fill-in by yourself. in the analysis conducted by using spss 11.0 the tests of mann whitney-u, kruskal wallis and linear regression analysis were used. the limit of meaningfulness is p<0.05. results:the average age of the 260 personnels who attended the research is 27.6 ±8.5 years old and 56.9% of them are female. the median for the knowledge level of general disater medicine is 72 points. there is a meaningful relationship in the positive direction between the knowledge level of the personnels on the disaster medicine.even if the relationship between the personnel occupations (p=0.007) and their attendance in disaster exercises (p=0.022) and the level of knowledge was shown, it was established that age, gender and the experience of disaster did not indicate a meaningful relationship. conclusion: the knowledge level of the personnels on the general disaster medicine is observed as sufficient, this state reveals a close relationship with education. in this connection, the personnels of 112 emerg ency health services should receive education on disaster medicine. in addition to the educations, the personnels’ level of knowledge should be supported by means of the disaster exercises which will be conducted at regular intervals.