Multimedia First Aid Program for Families (FirstAid_2)

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children and infants under 14 years of age. Many of these deaths are preventable, in part by promoting injury prevention behaviors but also by administering effective emergency first aid techniques until advanced care arrives. This project created a web site program that paired video-based instruction with interactive skills training to teach parents of children birth to 12 years old basic first-aid and CPR skills, and that included the option to practice skills as needed.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Text-only Online Training; Behavioral: Family First Aid Online Training

Detailed Description

Program content was based on the American Heart Association's (AHA) 2010 guidelines for CPR and first aid training. The Online IMM course was designed to teach participants in six modules: Principles of care; CPR for infants; CPR for children; How to relieve infant choking; How to relieve child choking; and Preventing injuries. Participants were also able to view text articles on first aid topics, such as Wound care or Caring for burns. Although the users of the Online IMM training program did not have direct contact with a manikin during their training, there were opportunities to practice CPR skills through the use of interactive animations. These animations demonstrated and then encouraged users to practice key functions similar to actual CPR skill delivery: including the location, depth and rate of compressions, opening the airway and giving breaths. Participants were encouraged to view the entire program; however, they could navigate and review all program content as much or as little as desired.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 182
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Oregon
    • Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97401
      • Oregon Center for Applied Science

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parents or guardians of children aged newborn to 12 years old could potentially be as young as 18 years old. Parents or legal guardians could potentially be as old as 65 or older.
• Children under the age of 18 were not included, even with parental consent, because of the online nature of the study and inability to verify parental consoent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Only English-speaking participants were accepted because the program was developed only for English speakers.
• All English-speaking parents of children aged newborn - 12 years old who wished to participate were included.
• There were no exclusions based on race/ethnicity.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Text-only Online Training; Text-only evidence-based training content on CPR, choking relief & first aid	Behavioral: Text-only Online Training; Online text created from the American Heart Association's 2010 guidelines for CPR training via a computer, depicting infant, child and adult CPR skills and choking relief.
Experimental: Family First Aid Online Training; Interactive multimedia evidence-based training content on CPR, choking relief & first aid	Behavioral: Family First Aid Online Training; Web-based interactive multimedia program comprised of videos, interactive animations and text information designed to teach parents of children aged birth to 12 years old basic first-aid and CPR skills, including the option to practice skills as needed.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge (knowledge score was calculated by summing the number of items answered correctly and dividing by the total number of items to arrive at the percent of items correctly endorsed.)	A knowledge score was calculated by summing the number of items answered correctly and dividing by the total number of items to arrive at the percent of items correctly endorsed.	40-day follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-efficacy (assessed with a 5-point scale)	Change in self-efficacy to perform CPR and choking relief skills was assessed with a 27- item scale (e.g., How confident are you that you know the correct ratio of compressions to breaths for CPR for a younger child ages 1-8) assessed with a 5-point scale (1=not at all confident; 5=extremely confident; alpha = .97).	10-day posttest and 40-day follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc.
• Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Amelia J Birney, MPH, MCHES, Oregon Center for Applied Science

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 21, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): January 6, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): October 14, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 12, 2016
• Last Verified: October 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: children; parents; video; training; internet; interactive
• Other Study ID Numbers: SBIR82RR-II; R43HD049156 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)