چکیده (انگلیسی):

Background: School personnel are required to guarantee a secure school environment for children
suffering from severe food allergies. We organized a workshop for school personnel to learn the
appropriate management of anaphylaxis that included practical training with an adrenaline auto-injector
(AAI). The objective of this study was to evaluate the workshop in terms of the improvement of selfefficacy
(SE) of participants to deal with anaphylaxis.
Methods: All 93 school nurses, 73 schoolteachers and 110 childcare workers participating in the study
completed a questionnaire before and after the workshop. The SE of the participants was evaluated using
an original 15-item questionnaire.
Results: Before the workshop, the SE of school nurses was the highest among the profession groups, and
being involved with children prescribed an AAI was a common factor associated with a high SE. After the
workshop, the SE increased in all groups, but most apparently in school nurses and those involved with
children prescribed an AAI. The presence of an emergency plan was positively associated with the SE of
schoolteachers only after the workshop, even though no such association existed beforehand.
Conclusions: Practical instruction of school nurses and school personnel involved with children prescribed
an AAI resulted in dramatic improvement of the SE. These people are expected to play a central
role in the development of an anaphylaxis management plan in their schools.