Situational Factors Related to Decision Making a First Aid to a Person who Experienced Traffic Accident

Abstract

The number of traffic accidents is still high in the northern coast line. Emergency situations make ordinary people motivated to help, but other phenomena show that ordinary people are afraid to do help. There are several factors that make ordinary people still think when they decide to help or not, namely the siatuasional factor. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between situational factors and decision making for first aid in traffic accidents. This type of research is a quantitative study using a descriptive correlation design with a total of 119 purposive sampling techniques. The result showed that the average people was 32, 24 years old, with male gender as much as 55,5% most worked as entrepreneurs as much as 38,7% and the majority of tertiary education was 36,1%. Declared an emergency situation as much 62,2% helped, and 77,3% helped. There is a relationship between situational factors with the decision to do first aid in traffic accidents marked by p value 0,000.