DISASTER MEDICINE No. 2 •2026

doi: 10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2

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Formation of Systemic Health-Preserving Thinking in First Aid Students: Application of Modern Organizational and Methodological Approaches that Facilitate the Instillation of First Aid Skills to Victims

Kostyuk I.I. 1, Savchenko O.A. 1,2, Kropotov I.Yu. 1, Savchenko O.A. 3, Ryzhikov M.A. 4

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1 Territorial Center of Disaster Medicine of the Omsk Region of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Omsk, Russian Federation

2 Novosibirsk Scientific Research Institute of Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

3 Omsk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Omsk, Russian Federation

4 Sechenov University, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDC 614.88:37.02:613

P. 75-79

 

Summary. The goal of the research is to develop systematic health-saving thinking among students based on modern organizational and methodological approaches that facilitate the instillation of the skill of providing first aid to victims in terms of self-help and mutual aid in case of injuries, traumas, and other life-threatening conditions.
Materials and methods of research. The research materials include both domestic and foreign experiences in forming a systemic health-saving mindset among students based on modern organizational and methodological approaches, the experience of training and retraining participants in providing first aid, and the practical experience of employees of the Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine in the Omsk region, which facilitates the acquisition of skills in providing first aid to victims in the scope of self- and mutual aid in cases of injuries, traumas, and other life-threatening conditions; regulatory legal acts that govern the training of students in providing first aid. Methods used: literary-analytical, formal-legal, content analysis, formalization, generalization, comparison, narration, demonstration, training.
The results of the study and their analysis. The ways of forming a systemic health-saving mindset among students are presented based on modern organizational and methodological approaches that facilitate the acquisition of skills in providing first aid to victims in the scope of self-help and mutual aid during injuries, traumas, and other life-threatening conditions. The methods of forming a systemic health-saving mindset among students are based on modern organizational-methodical, physiological, and psychological approaches and management methods that ease the development of skills in providing first aid to victims. Attention is paid to the role of the instructor in the subject ‘Providing First Aid to Victims’ in increasing the level of medical knowledge, health-saving thinking, and personal motivation to help victims in emergency situations among students, which contribute to the qualitative, lasting, and faster acquisition of skills in providing first aid.

Keywords: first aid, formation of health-saving thinking, instilling skills, learners, organizational and methodological foundations and methods of conducting classes, role of the lesson leader, systemic health-saving mindset, Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine

For citation: Kostyuk I.I., Savchenko O.A., Kropotov I.Yu., Savchenko O.A., Ryzhikov M.A. Formation of Systemic Health-Preserving Thinking in First Aid Students: Application of Modern Organizational and Methodological Approaches that Facilitate the Instillation of First Aid Skills to Victims Meditsina Katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2026;2:75-79 (In Russ.). doi:10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2-75-79

 

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The material was received 01.07.25; the article after peer review procedure 22.03.26; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 16.06.26
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