8 Assessing the links between first aid training and community resilience > Learning – this refers to the acquisition 2.1.2 willingness of information, where people in the > Willingness to provide first aid as a first aid community know the respondent has training outcome, in contrast, is not found to had first aid training, know first aid be related to having been trained in first aid, themselves, and the respondent knows and is thus not supported as an outcome of someone in the community to go to first aid training. However, willingness was for help if ever they need first aid. found to be related to some community > Readiness to respond – have preparations resilience indicators – specifically, social in place to respond to a first aid connectedness, community efficacy, and emergency, and reason for attending knowing someone who can be turned to for first aid training. help (learning). As such, willingness may be > Facilitating economic wellbeing and able to be influenced through a greater equality of access to first aid training – understanding of these indicators. attending first aid training for employment purposes, and removing financial barriers to first aid training (financial barriers to 2.2 Community resilience indicators first aid training were identified from the qualitative data and were not asked Taking each indicator of community resilience about in the survey itself). separately, a fuller picture of the relationships with first aid training can be illustrated: 2. our findings 2.2.1 social connectedness > Being socially connected is related to an 2.1 Outcomes of first aid training individual’s willingness to act, with those stating a willingness to act also reporting 2.1.1 confidence they feel part of a community, the community > This study supports confidence as an outcome watch out for each other, and that people in of first aid training, with attendance at first aid the community are willing to help each other. training, especially multiple training, helping Communities trained together showed greater to increase people’s confidence to provide first social connectedness in terms of the respondent aid. However this confidence was found to feeling more strongly a part of the community dissipate over time when comparing those with than those that were not (94% vs. 91%), and recent training to those who had previously those individuals trained more than once more received training. strongly agreed that people in their community watch out for each other (85% vs. 75%).