New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT´s) in Basic Life Support Training for Non-medical Students: Educational Trial

Universidad de Antioquia

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital

Treatments: Other: Basic Life Support training based on ICTs; Other: Classic Basic Life Support training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04286204

SIIU 2019-28530

Details and patient eligibility

About

With the increase in life expectancy of the general population and advances in medicine, there is now a population with a higher amount of cardiovascular diseases that lead to an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest. In most cases, this occurs in extra-hospital settings such as family homes, shopping centres, public transport and before people without any knowledge or training in basic life support. On the other hand, for every minute that passes without adequate attention of the victim, the probability of surviving or continuing to live with neurological severe sequelae decreases by 10%.

In developed countries, public policies have been created to encourage basic life support education to the general population. In Colombia, because of the high prevalence of these diseases and the need for public health strategies, a law was issued to provide access to automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places. However, it has not been developed strategies for education on this subject.

For that reason, the investigators created an educational strategy of self-learning, which consists of a complete basic life support course based in new Information and Communication technologies with tools to manufacture a mannequin and a homemade DEA, which will allow continuous training, with a very low cost compared to traditional life support training.

The clinical trial will compare that two educational strategies, evaluating as primary aid, which approach has higher knowledge retention of life support chain at 6 months in students after the workshop. As secondary objectives, the investigators would evaluate the efficient in terms of response times, costs and student satisfaction.

This study will be carried out in high school students from two different high schools, without prior training in Life support. Both strategies will be distributed randomly. The experimental group will carry out the self-learning strategy based on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), with which they will be retrained every month, and the control group will carry out the conventional training only once as usual. Subsequently, each of the objectives will be evaluated at six months.

It is proposed that the self-learning strategy is superior compared to conventional training, requiring fewer resources to perform it and allows constant retraining, which improves retention and quality in a resuscitation process.

Sex: All

Ages: 14+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Senior students over 14 years in high school.

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive disorders.
• Cardiovascular o pulmonary diseases.
• Any condition that prevents physical activities.
• To have any previous training in basic life support.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Basic Life Support Training based on ICTs

Experimental group

Description:

It will be conformed with students from one highschool random selected. They will receive a basic life support training based on Information and communication technologies.

Treatment:

Other: Basic Life Support training based on ICTs

Classic Basic Life Support Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

It will be conformed with students from another highschool random selected. They will receive a full and conventional basic life support training based on American and Hear Association recommendations.

Treatment:

Other: Classic Basic Life Support training