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Basic Life Support (BLS) and Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education

NCT00715767 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 215

Last updated 2010-10-14

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Summary

This is a randomized, multi-center intervention trial comparing two educational programs on healthcare provider performance in the Botswana national hospital system. This study addresses the critical question of how to effectively and consistently measure and associate CPR knowledge and psychomotor skills, enabling the optimization of the learners' environment.

Conditions

  • Medical Education

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Assessment

Cognitive Assessment: Knowledge base and critical thinking will be evaluated by a 50-question BLS multiple-choice examination. At the designated 4 cognitive assessments in the study (pre-course, immediately post course, 3 months and 6 months) 50 equivalent questions will be used to cover all core BLS objectives. Technical Skills Assessment: Primary outcome measures of adequacy of chest compressions and ventilations as well as key actions for each of the 3standardized basic life support skill tests during 3-minute testing scenarios. Video review by 2independent experts will be utilized for objective assessment of time and order dependent skills, and manikin output will be utilized to assess qualitative effectiveness of skills (adequate ventilation, compression, and defibrillation). Survey Instrument for Barriers to Acute Medicine Education: A survey tool will be used to identify barriers to acute medicine education implementation and efficacy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Pete Meaney, MD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-09-30

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