Relationship of Knowledge and Experience with Perception of the Level of Emergency in Patient’s Family at Emergency Room.

Context: Handling in Emergency Room (ER) is often considered late by the patient’s family. Public perception in this case the patient’s family about the condition of the emergency is based on knowledge about the clinical condition of the emergency and psychosocial and the experience of bringing patients to the ER. The goal of this study is to find the relationship between knowledge and experience with perceptions of the level of emergency of patient’s family in ER. The research design is a cross sectional approach. The population covers the families of traffic accident patients in the ER with the total of 100 people using purposive sampling. The results showed that more than half (55%) of respondents had good knowledge (55%), more than half (66%) of respondents had experience delivering patients to ER, and almost all (94%) had a severe perception of the condition of patients on ER. The results of the research used Spearman Rank test to know the relationship between knowledge and experience with perceptions of the level of emergency of patients family in ER. The p value obtained was 0.043(significancy of 0.05) which means there is a relationship between knowledge with perceptions of the level of emergency and the p value obtained was 0.176(no significancy of 0.05) which means there is no relationship between experience with perceived level of emergency. It is expected that the next researcher will examine the factors that influence the patient’s family knowledge about the level of emergency of patients in the ER. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]