Retention and Retrieval for Three Different Training Methods

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

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?

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Improvement of BLS/AED Training Methods
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: ERC-training by instructor; Other: Web-based training only; Other: Web-based training with a personal training manikin

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 280
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• willing to follow a BLS/AED course

Exclusion Criteria:

• CPR training within the last five years
• professional health care provider

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Control-1; ERC-training by instructor	Other: ERC-training by instructor; Standard way of training with an instructor
No Intervention: Control-2; No intervention
Experimental: Experimental-1; Web-based training only	Other: Web-based training only; Experimental way of training with a web based training application
Experimental: Experimental-2; Web-based training with a personal training manikin	Other: Web-based training with a personal training manikin; Experimental way of training with a web based training application and a simple personal training manikin

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Kruskal-Wallis	10-2007 - 03-2009

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Doczero
• Collaborators: Ambulance Oost
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Wiebe de Vries, MSc, Doczero; Study Chair: Koenraad Monsieurs, Professor, University Hospital, Ghent; Study Director: Joost Bierens, Professor, VU Medical Centre; Study Chair: Rudolph Koster, PhD, Academical Medical Centre Amsterdam

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2007
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2009
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 2, 2009
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 6, 2009
• First Posted (Estimate): July 7, 2009

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 7, 2009
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 6, 2009
• Last Verified: July 1, 2009

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Retention; Education; Retrieval
• Other Study ID Numbers: 081203_Ed-web