Retention and Retrieval for Three Different Training Methods

Improvement of BLS/AED Training Methods Clinical Trial

Official title:

Do we Need an Instructor, or a Manikin to Learn BLS/AED, or is Web Based Training as Good as Instructor Based Training?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00933660
• Other study ID #: 081203_Ed-web
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 2, 2009
• Last updated: July 6, 2009
• Start date: October 2007
• Est. completion date: September 2009

Study information

• Verified date: July 2009
• Source: Doczero
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Netherlands: Independent Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The hypotheses that will be studied are:

H0: Providers trained by a web based application for skill competency in basic life support (BLS) and automated external defibrillation (AED) are as competent as those who were trained by certified instructors using the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) curriculum

H00-1: Providers who trained themselves with the used of web based training are more competent when they had a personal manikin for home exercise compared to providers who trained themselves with only a web based training

H0-2: Providers who did not receive any training will score lower than those who did.

Research questions for this study are:

1. What are the results in skill competency for non trained people?

2. What are the results in skill competency for trained people immediately after training?

3. What is the retention of skills for trained and non trained people after six months?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 280
• Est. completion date: September 2009
• Est. primary completion date: March 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 15 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• willing to follow a BLS/AED course

Exclusion Criteria:

• CPR training within the last five years

• professional health care provider

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Improvement of BLS/AED Training Methods

Intervention

Other:
• ERC-training by instructor
Standard way of training with an instructor
• Web-based training only
Experimental way of training with a web based training application
• Web-based training with a personal training manikin
Experimental way of training with a web based training application and a simple personal training manikin

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Doczero	Ambulance Oost

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Kruskal-Wallis		10-2007 - 03-2009	No