Better First Aid With First Aid Training and Dispatcher Central Instructions?

University of Tromso (UiT)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: First aid instructions by mobile phone; Behavioral: First aid course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02391922

2014/1844(REK)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study evaluates the effect of a first aid course on first aid skills compared to no training. The study also evaluates the effect of first-aid instructions given by emergency dispatch central over mobile phone on first aid performance to no instructions.

Half the participants will perform first aid in two scenarios prior to first aid training. Half the participants will perform first aid in two scenarios 4 to 5 months after attending a first aid course. Half the participants (overall) will receive first aid instructions by mobile phone during the scenarios.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students in high school/college

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 4 patient groups

No first aid course, No dipatch instruction

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants' first aid skills are tested in two scenarios without prior first aid course and no dispatch instructions during the scenarios

First aid course, No dispatch instructions

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants' first aid skills are tested in two scenarios 4 to 5 months after receiving a first aid course and no dispatch instructions during the scenarios

Treatment:

Behavioral: First aid course

First aid course, dispatch instructions

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants' first aid skills are tested in two scenarios 4 to 5 months after receiving a first aid course and they are given instructions from emergency dispatch by phone during the test scenarios

Treatment:

Behavioral: First aid instructions by mobile phone

Behavioral: First aid course

No first aid course, dispatch instructions

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants' first aid skills are tested in two scenarios without prior first aid course, and they are given instructions from emergency dispatch by phone during the test scenarios

Treatment:

Behavioral: First aid instructions by mobile phone