Comparison of Different Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Training Methods

NCT ID: NCT00932906

Last Updated: 2009-07-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 396 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2009-12-31

Brief Summary

This study is a prospective, randomized trial that compares the effectiveness and retention of four different training methods for the use of an AED:

A. Traditional instructor based learning;

B. The use of a personal manikin with a DVD training to practice the necessary AED skills;

C. The use of a personal manikin with a DVD training to practice the necessary AED skills and additional scenario training;

D. Watching a 2.5 minutes DVD which shows the use of an AED.

It is hypnotised that there are no differences between these training methods, in which case method D is most efficient to reach large number of people to learn BLS/AED skills.

There are two interesting target groups to reach:

1. Younger people, as they might give the highest interest after training, as they normally live longer.

2. Older people as they are member of the most important group in risk and have therefore a higher change of being a witness of cardiac arrest.

As there might be differences in the results between different training methods than can be related to age, each training group is distinguished to three different groups:

1. 21 years of younger;

2. between 21 and 50 years;

3. older than 50 years.

It is hypnotised that there are no differences between younger and older students within each of the four training methods.

Conditions

Improvement of BLS/AED Training Programmes

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Instructor based training; <21 years

The instructor based training is a 1.25 hour training as described by the ERC in their standard training program \[ref; navragen bij Koen\] and using the ERC PowerPoint presentation. There is one manikin and one AED trainer per six students. The group consists out of 12 students maximal, with one instructor per six students.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Standard training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Instructor-based training meeting ERC directions

Instructor based training; 21-50 years

The instructor based training is a 1.25 hour training as described by the ERC in their standard training program \[ref; navragen bij Koen\] and using the ERC PowerPoint presentation. There is one manikin and one AED trainer per six students. The group consists out of 12 students maximal, with one instructor per six students.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Standard training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Instructor-based training meeting ERC directions

Instructor based training; >50 years

The instructor based training is a 1.25 hour training as described by the ERC in their standard training program \[ref; navragen bij Koen\] and using the ERC PowerPoint presentation. There is one manikin and one AED trainer per six students. The group consists out of 12 students maximal, with one instructor per six students.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Standard training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Instructor-based training meeting ERC directions

Video Skill Training; <21 years

Participants practise AED skills, watching a 4.5-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video Skill Training; 21-50 years

Participants practise AED skills, watching a 4.5-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video Skill Training; >50 years

Participants practise AED skills, watching a 4.5-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video scenario training; <21 years

Participants practises AED skills, watching a 9-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock, and additional two scenarios, in each of which they practice the BLS/AED procedure.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video scenario training; 21-50 years

Participants practises AED skills, watching a 9-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock, and additional two scenarios, in each of which they practice the BLS/AED procedure.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video scenario training; >50 years

Participants practises AED skills, watching a 9-min video in a single uninterrupted session. There is no instructor available. The video demonstrates the use of an AED; when to use it, how to turn it on, how to attach the electrodes, keeping distance and delivering a shock, and additional two scenarios, in each of which they practice the BLS/AED procedure.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video demonstration training; <21 years

Participants watch a 2.5 minutes video demonstration of the use of an AED, in a single uninterrupted session, without hands-on practice.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video demonstration training; 21-50 years

Participants watch a 2.5 minutes video demonstration of the use of an AED, in a single uninterrupted session, without hands-on practice.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Video demonstration training; >50 years

Participants watch a 2.5 minutes video demonstration of the use of an AED, in a single uninterrupted session, without hands-on practice.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Different self-training methods

Intervention Type: OTHER

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Interventions

Different self-training methods

Self training with MiniAnne Training Kit

Intervention Type: OTHER

Standard training

Instructor-based training meeting ERC directions

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• willing to follow a BLS/AED course up to 2h

Exclusion Criteria

• CPR training within the last five years
• professional health care provider

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Laerdal Medical

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Doczero

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Doczero

Principal Investigators

Wiebe de Vries, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Doczero

Koenraad Monsieurs, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University Hospital, Ghent

Joost Bierens, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

VU Medical Centre

Rudolph Koster, PhD MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Academical Medical Centre Amsterdam

Nigel M Turner, PhD MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Medicine, Wilhelmina Children Hospital - University Medical Centre Utrecht

Other Identifiers

Ed-2008-06

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id