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

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Cardiac Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital

Interventions

OTHER

Basic Life Support training based on ICTs

This intervention is defined as a self-training course consisting of a 5-minute educational video in basic life support and a Kit with the elements to build the home dummy and the home DEA allowing integrally students to develop the steps as the video. The Kit will be delivered at the beginning of the study and every month the necessary materials will be complemented. The strategy will be carried out by the students every month and supervised by their teachers. Students will have constant access to an educational platform based on ICTs.

OTHER

Classic Basic Life Support training

It is defined as a module carried out by trained personnel in basic resuscitation (pre-hospital care program staff of the UdeA medical school), which includes two subcomponents of the conventional BLS course that are basic resuscitation and DEA in adults. The duration of the subcomponents is a theoretical part of 30 minutes and a practical part in a low fidelity simulator with 1.5 hours duration.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad de Antioquia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Juan Villa-Velasquez, Dr · Univeridad de Antioquia's Professor

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-03-01

Primary Completion

2022-08-31

Completion

2022-12-01

Countries

• Colombia

Study Locations