Teaching Young Children Swim Survival Skills

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drowning

Treatments: Behavioral: self-rescue training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05977530

IRB-300011508

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to evaluate whether commercially-available swim self-rescue schools are effective to teach children ages 12-23 months to stay safely alive floating in the water (or grasping the pool's edge) without adult intervention. The investigators will measure children's water self-rescue skills at baseline and then they will engage in commercially-available training over the course of several weeks. The investigators will then measure their skills again. Assessments will be conducted using a standardized protocol with a certified lifeguard present. Parents will also complete a short survey concerning child and family demographics and child and family swim and lifeguard training experience.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 23 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• child ages 12-23 months
• enrolled in self-rescue course at participating swim facility

Exclusion criteria

• medical conditions counter-indicating training in water
• previous experience in self-rescue swim courses

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

self-rescue training

Experimental group

Description:

children will receive self-rescue training from a certified instructor

Treatment:

Behavioral: self-rescue training