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

October 13, 2010 updated by: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Correlation of Cognitive and Technical Skills Assessment for Basic Life Support and Identification of Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Context: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 16 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, accounting for more than one-third of global deaths. Almost half of these deaths take place in hospitalized settings. Standard acute medicine education programs have had limited success in training hospital based healthcare providers to acquire, retain, and transfer knowledge and skills to impact patient outcomes in both developed and developing countries. There is a gap between the cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills attained during courses and the technical and team skills actually performed by hospital-based healthcare providers. This gap between existing knowledge and performed skills restricts care delivery, underutilizes available resources, and contributes to the number of preventable deaths. This gap is further accentuated in resource limited settings, where barriers to implementation of successful acute medicine training programs are often accentuated.

Primary Objective:

1. To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills which are associated with technical and team skills performance assessed immediately following Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Providers course training.

Secondary Objectives:

1. To identify cultural, healthcare environment and educational barriers that currently impede acquisition, retention, and transfer of knowledge and skills in acute medicine educational programs in resource limited settings.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

215

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Healthcare providers involved in patient contact.
  2. Participation in BLS for Healthcare Provider Course

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Have received formal Basic Life Support training in previous 12 months.
  2. Inability to perform or complete cognitive and skills assessment testing (pre, immediate post, 3 or six month post).
  3. Healthcare personnel performing an educational rotation at the district or referral hospital will not be eligible due to loss of follow-up.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills.
Time Frame: 1 year
1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Collaborators

Laerdal Medical

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Pete Meaney, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2009

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2010

Study Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 14, 2008

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 14, 2008

First Posted (Estimate)

July 15, 2008

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

October 14, 2010

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 13, 2010

Last Verified

October 1, 2010

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2008-1-5700

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