Clinical trial NCT06003504: The Impact of First Aid Blended Learning Training on Learning Outcomes and Helping Behaviour of Adult Laypeople in Rwanda
Official title: The Impact of First Aid Training, Delivered Via a Face-to-face or Blended Learning Approach, on Learning Outcomes and Helping Behaviour of Adult Laypeople in Rwanda: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emergencies
Injuries
Illness Physical
Keywords: First aid
Blended learning
Laypeople
Lead sponsor: Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgium
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Rwanda Red Cross
name: Belgian Red Cross
First posted: 2023-08-22
Enrollment: 540
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: This is a randomised controlled trial in which the allocation is done at the level of the individual participant.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this study is to assess the impact of a first aid training delivered through a blended learning approach on learning outcomes and helping behaviour in adult laypeople in Rwanda.

Participants will be randomly assigned to either:

* a first aid training with blended learning approach;
* a first aid training with conventional face-to-face approach;
* no first aid training.

All participants will be asked before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings to complete

* a questionnaire on first aid-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and willingness to help;
* a practical test on first aid-related skills.

The helping behaviour of the participants will be surveyed before and 6 months after the first aid trainings have been completed.

Researchers will compare the effects in learning outcomes and helping behaviour after 6 months between:

* the first aid training with blended learning approach and no first aid training;
* the first aid training with blended learning approach and first aid training with conventional face-to-face approach.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult (≥ 18 years) laypeople
* Access to a smartphone or tablet, which is able to install and run a mobile application

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having attended a first aid training in the past
* Having an academic or professional background in the (para)medical field

Primary outcomes:
measure: First aid knowledge
timeFrame: Before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings
Secondary outcomes:
measure: First aid skills
timeFrame: Before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings
measure: First aid self-efficacy
timeFrame: Before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings
measure: First aid willingness to help
timeFrame: Before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings
measure: Helping behaviour in the past 6 months
timeFrame: Before and 6 months after the first aid trainings
Other outcomes:
measure: Costs
timeFrame: Before, immediately after, and 6 months after the first aid trainings
Locations:
city: Kigali
country: Rwanda
facility: Rwanda Red Cross
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgium
name: Emmy De Buck, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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