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CPR Training in Students to Increase Bystander Intervention in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.

NCT03233490 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1547

Last updated 2017-08-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The overall aim of this thesis is to identify the factors that may affect 13 year old students' acquisition of CPR skills and their willingness to act. The primary hypothesis is that the training method (intervention) influences the participants' acquisition of practical CPR skills and willingness to intervene.

The study used a cluster randomized design, based on a randomization list generated by an independent statistician. The school classes were randomly assigned to different CPR training interventions.

A strategic sample, where invitation to participate in the study was sent to the headmasters of all council schools, with seventh grade students, in two Swedish municipalities (140,000). Thus, the sample consists of participants with different cultural as well as socio-economic background. Eighteen of 24 schools agreed to participate. Four schools did not respond and two schools had a routine to offer CPR education only for grade nine (all six schools from the same municipality). The eighteen schools who agreed to participate consisted of sixty-eight classes with 1547 students.

Prior to study participation, students and their guardians obtained a letter with study information. Study participation of the individual students was voluntary and all participants gave an oral informed consent.

Inclusion criteria: seventh grade student in one of the participating schools. Exclusion criteria: student does not want to participate, student with a physical handicap that limited the physical performance, classes of students with development disabilities (these classes are age-integrated and have fewer students per class).

Conditions

  • Coping Skills

Interventions

OTHER

web course

Web course Help Brain Heart was conducted Before CPR training.

OTHER

CPR training

No web course was conducted

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • L Svensson · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-12-16
Primary Completion
2014-10-22
Completion
2014-10-22

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