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

• Sponsor: Hopital Montfort (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT03893253
• Collaborator: Institut du Savoir Montfort (Other)
• Enrollment: 84
• Location: 1
• Arms: 3
• Actual Duration (Months): 20.8
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 4

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Basic Life Support	Other: Early Booster Teaching; Other: Late Booster Teaching	N/A

Detailed Description

Health care professionals who have not received BLS training in the 6 months leading up to the date of participation will be recruited from local health care institutions in the greater-Ottawa area. Participants will be randomized into one of three groups: early booster, late booster, or no booster (control). Currently, no booster is the educational standard. The early booster group will receive a booster at 3 weeks, the late booster at 2 months, and no booster for the control. All participants will undergo BLS training, an immediate post-test, and a retention post-test at 4 months. Post-tests involve a simulated cardiac arrest scenario. Raters will be blinded to the group allocation and simulation test order.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 84 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Intervention Model Description: Participants randomized to one of three groups : early booster, late booster, or no booster (control group)Participants randomized to one of three groups : early booster, late booster, or no booster (control group)
• Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
• Masking Description: Trained evaluators will rate a series of videos but will be blinded to which arm of the study participants are from.
• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Official Title: Does an Early Booster Session Improve Performance and Retention of Basic Life Support Skills Compared to a Late Booster in Health Care Professionals? A Simulation-based Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Actual Study Start Date: Oct 22, 2018
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jul 17, 2020
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jul 17, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Early Booster Teaching The early booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 3 weeks post-training followed by feedback.	Other: Early Booster Teaching; The early booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 3 weeks post-training followed by feedback.
Active Comparator: Late Booster Teaching The late booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 2 months post-training followed by feedback.	Other: Late Booster Teaching; The late booster group will receive a booster teaching session at 2 months post-training followed by feedback
No Intervention: Control group The control group will receive no booster teaching at all.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Basic Life Support Performance [4 months]

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

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Time to start chest compressions [4 months]

   Time from entering the scene to initiation of compression

2. Time to defibrillation [4 months]

   Time from start to defibrillation with AED

3. Quality of CPR [4 months]

   Hand placement on lower half of sternum, 30 compressions in no less than 15 and no more than 18 seconds, compresses at least 5 cm, complete recoil after each compression

4. Overall BLS performance [4 months]

   Basic Life Support performance, as measured by the standardized Heart and Stroke checklist (PASS OR FAIL)

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

-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.

Exclusion Criteria:

• 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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Institut du Savoir Montfort	Ottawa	Ontario	Canada	K1K 0T2

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Hopital Montfort
• Institut du Savoir Montfort

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Richard Waldolf, MD, Hôpital Montfort

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Hopital Montfort
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03893253
• Other Study ID Numbers: 18-19-08-020
• First Posted: Mar 28, 2019
• Last Update Posted: Mar 23, 2022
• Last Verified: Mar 1, 2022

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: No
• Plan to Share IPD: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 23, 2022