Clinical trial NCT03511872: Peers Vs Professionals in Basic Life Support Training
Official title: Peers Versus Professional Training of Basic Life Support in Syria: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Basic Life Support Training Course
Keywords: Basic life support
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
medical undergraduate students
crisis
randomized controlled trial.
Lead sponsor: Damascus University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-04-30
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A randomized controlled trial with blinded assessors on medical students from the pre-clinical years (1st to 3rd years in Syria) at Syrian Private University. Students are randomly assigned to peer-led or to professional-led training group for one-day-course of basic life support skills.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: An Evaluation of Peer-led basic life support training course compared with professional-led course in a limited resource environment; A randomized controlled trial

Detailed description: Peer training has been identified as a useful tool for delivering undergraduate training in basic life support (BLS) which is fundamental as an initial response in cases of emergency.

This study aimed to (1) Evaluate the efficacy of peer-led model in basic life support training among medical students in their first three years of study, compared to professional-led training and (2) To assess the efficacy of the course program and students' satisfaction of peer-led training.

A randomized controlled trial with blinded assessors will be conducted on 72 medical students from the pre-clinical years (1st to 3rd years in Syria) at Syrian Private University. Students will be randomly assigned to peer-led or to professional-led training group for one-day-course of basic life support skills.

Analysis will be done on students who underwent checklist based assessment using objective structured clinical examination design (OSCE) (practical assessment of BLS skills) and answered BLS knowledge checkpoint-questionnaire.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Medical student from 1st, 2nd and third year at Syrian Private University.
* Sign the consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

* presence of any health problems preventing students from doing physical exercise.
* any serious acute or chronic illness (infectious, psychological, physical).
* scheduling conflict between the date of the BLS course and other faculty's classes or exams.
* missing the course or the assessment for any reason.
* refusing to sign the consent and having any prior experience in BLS skills (previously trained on BLS).

Primary outcomes:
measure: BLS practical skills
timeFrame: Training and assessment were held at the same day of the experiment for both groups, 1) within 24 hours of providing the bls training course.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: BLS knowledge questionnaire
timeFrame: Training and assessment were held at the same day of the experiment for both groups. 1) within 24 hours of providing the bls training course.
measure: Students' evaluation of BLS course survey
timeFrame: Training and assessment were held at the same day of the experiment for both groups. 1) within 24 hours of providing the bls training course.
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