First Aid Literacy among Different Demographics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

First aid literacy is an important element in the health infrastructure system of any population, which is the intricacy of summoning knowledge, skills, and the confidence to care for people in a moment of emergency time before the arrival of professional medical help. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a rapidly developing country in the context of the vision to 2030, with the population in a condition of socio-economic and demographic transformation, the role of literacy in knowledge of first aid among the population of various demographic groups is gaining popularity nowadays in terms of national health security and resilience of the population.