Clinical trial NCT04440111: Basic Life Support by Children
Official title: Teaching Children Basic Life Support: Randomized Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Arrest With Successful Resuscitation
Child, Only
Lead sponsor: Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Hospital Miguel Servet
First posted: 2020-06-19
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: A controlled clinical trial will be performed.

School children from the age of 10 to 11 will be selected to learn basic life support (BLS) in a primary school of Zaragoza.

One of the groups will learn BLS in two consecutive years and the other group will learn BLS only the first year.

The investigators think that the knowledge will be better in the group that receives two interventions.

Detailed description: A controlled clinical trial will be performed.

72 participants between 10 and 11 years old will be selected and randomized to participate.

Control group and experimental group will enrolled 36 participants each one. Control group will receive BLS training once. Experimental group will receive BLS training in two consecutive years.

Previous and after training a test will be performed.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children from 10 to 12 years old that are attending to the selected school at the moment of the intervention
* Children with signed consent given by parents at the moment of the intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children not attending all the theorical and practical interventions
* Children not completing all test.
* Children with learning disabilities

Primary outcomes:
measure: To evaluate the knowledge level of BLS after receiving one or two interventions
timeFrame: 3 hours
measure: To compare test results obtained previous and after intervention.
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Zaragoza
country: Spain
facility: Cristina Genzor Ríos
Study officials:
References:
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