Early or Late Booster in Basic Life Support for Health Care Professionals

NCT03893253 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 18-19-08-020
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 84
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Attrition of skills after basic life support (BLS) training is common. Psychology studies have established that for basic memory recall tasks, spaced learning strategies improve retention. Spaced learning is often organized as a refresher or 'booster' course after initial training. This study aims to investigate if this principle holds true for BLS skills, which require rapid memory recall and efficient deployment of procedural skills while under time pressure.

Conditions

Basic Life Support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Basic Life Support Performance

  Basic Life Support performance, as measured by the standardized Heart and Stroke checklist score

  4 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Time to start chest compressions

  4 months

• Time to defibrillation

  4 months

• Quality of CPR

  4 months

• Overall BLS performance

  4 months

Study Arms (3)

Early Booster Teaching

EXPERIMENTAL

The early booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 3 weeks post-training followed by feedback.

Other: Early Booster Teaching

Late Booster Teaching

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The late booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 2 months post-training followed by feedback.

Other: Late Booster Teaching

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will receive no booster teaching at all.

Interventions

Early Booster Teaching OTHER

The early booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 3 weeks post-training followed by feedback.

Early Booster Teaching

Late Booster Teaching OTHER

The late booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 2 months post-training followed by feedback

Late Booster Teaching

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Healthcare professionals who interact with patients and have not received any BLS training or practice in the 6 months leading up to the date of their participation will be recruited.

You may not qualify if:

• under 18 years of age
• non healthcare professionals
• healthcare professionals who don't interact directly with patients
• healthcare professionals who have completed Basic Life Support training in the previous six months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hopital Montfort: lead
• Institut du Savoir Montfort: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Institut du Savoir Montfort

Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 0T2, Canada

Location

Study Officials

• Richard Waldolf, MD

  Hôpital Montfort

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Trained evaluators will rate a series of videos but will be blinded to which arm of the study participants are from.
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Participants randomized to one of three groups : early booster, late booster, or no booster (control group)

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 26, 2019
• First Posted: March 28, 2019
• Study Start: October 22, 2018
• Primary Completion: July 17, 2020
• Study Completion: July 17, 2020
• Last Updated: March 23, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)