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NCT Number: NCT02331121

Multimedia First Aid Program for Families

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Injury Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Oregon Center for Applied Science

Eugene, Oregon, 97401, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Family First Aid Online Training

Behavioral

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.

Text-only Online Training

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. 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.)

    Time frame: 40-day follow-up

    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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Self-efficacy (assessed with a 5-point scale)

    Time frame: 10-day posttest and 40-day follow-up

    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).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc.

Industry

Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Registry information

Acronym: FirstAid_2

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Jan 6, 2015
Registry last updated
Oct 14, 2016

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