Teaching First Aid and Trauma Management to School Students

The Importance of Teaching First Aid and Trauma Management to Primary School Students

This proposal aims to describe research that will utilize first aid in primary education students and will attempt to identify the frequency with which the training should be repeated and the type of trainer who will carry out the training program.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Emergencies; Child, Only; Head Injury; Trauma-related Wound; Nose Bleed; Choking
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: First aid lessons

Detailed Description

The training concerns courses with theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to first aid. Taking into account children's cognitive and psychological development, students will be trained in the following topics: calling an ambulance, managing bleeding, handling an unconscious patient, drowning, and managing a head injury. Classroom teachers and specialized staff will teach classes. The evaluation of knowledge and skills will be done with a questionnaire. The evaluation will take place before and immediately after the training, two months and seven months after the training.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 192
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Greece
  • Ioannina, Greece, 45500
    • George Alexiou

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 4 years to 9 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students at primary schools and kindergarten, 4-9 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students over 9 years old

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: No first aid training
Experimental: First aid training	Other: First aid lessons; The school children will have first aid training

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants that know first aid	We will use questionnaire to assess this outcome	1 day pre the training
Number of participants that learnt first aid	We will use questionnaire to assess this outcome	1-day post the training
Comparing the results of the training about the facilitators' performance	We will use questionnaire to assess this outcome	2 months post the training
Number of participants that retain the first aid knowledge	We will use questionnaire to assess this outcome	7 months post the training

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Ioannina

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 25, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): November 25, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 24, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 30, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): October 3, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 29, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2023
• Last Verified: November 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: first aid training, children
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Nervous System Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Disease Attributes; Hemorrhage; Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases; Trauma, Nervous System; Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory; Nose Diseases; Emergencies; Wounds and Injuries; Epistaxis; Craniocerebral Trauma
• Other Study ID Numbers: 970/29-06-2021

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No