Medical EducationBLSinBotswanaNCT00715767
Basic Life Support (BLS) and Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education
A study testing Assessment in people with Medical Education, run by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Trial summary
This is a randomized, multi-center intervention trial comparing two educational programs on healthcare provider performance in the Botswana national hospital system. This study addresses the critical question of how to effectively and consistently measure and associate CPR knowledge and psychomotor skills, enabling… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any age
- Conditions the study is for
- Medical Education
- What is being tested?
- Assessment
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- How many people
- 215 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- Jan 2009to Sep 2010
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Healthcare providers involved in patient contact.
- Participation in BLS for Healthcare Provider Course
Who cannot join
- Have received formal Basic Life Support training in previous 12 months.
- Inability to perform or complete cognitive and skills assessment testing (pre, immediate post, 3 or six month post).
- Healthcare personnel performing an educational rotation at the district or referral hospital will not be eligible due to loss of follow-up.
About this study
Official title: Correlation of Cognitive and Technical Skills Assessment for Basic Life Support and Identification of Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education
This is a randomized, multi-center intervention trial comparing two educational programs on healthcare provider performance in the Botswana national hospital system. This study addresses the critical question of how to effectively and consistently measure and associate CPR knowledge and psychomotor skills, enabling the optimization of the learners' environment.
Read the detailed description
Context: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 16 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, accounting for more than one-third of global deaths. Almost half of these deaths take place in hospitalized settings. Standard acute medicine education programs have had limited success in training hospital based healthcare providers to acquire, retain, and transfer knowledge and skills to impact patient outcomes in both developed and developing countries. There is a gap between the cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills attained during courses and the technical and team skills actually performed by hospital-based healthcare providers. This gap between existing knowledge and performed skills restricts care delivery, underutilizes available resources, and contributes to the number of preventable deaths. This gap is further accentuated in resource limited settings, where barriers to implementation of successful acute medicine training programs are often accentuated.
Primary Objective:
- To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills which are associated with technical and team skills performance assessed immediately following Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Providers course training.
Secondary Objectives:
- To identify cultural, healthcare environment and educational barriers that currently impede acquisition, retention, and transfer of knowledge and skills in acute medicine educational programs in resource limited settings.
- Conditions
- Medical Education
- Being tested
- Assessment
- Keywords
- BLS training, CPR, post graduate education, resource-limited settings, medical education, CPR retention, cultural barriers
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
AssessmentBehavioural
Also called cognitive assessment, critical thinking, outcome measures of adequacy of chest compressions, outcome measures of adequacy of ventilations
Cognitive Assessment:
Knowledge base and critical thinking will be evaluated by a 50-question BLS multiple-choice examination. At the designated 4 cognitive assessments in the study (pre-course, immediately post course, 3 months and 6 months) 50 equivalent questions will be used to cover all core BLS objectives. Technical Skills Assessment:
Primary outcome measures of adequacy of chest compressions and ventilations as well as key actions for each of the 3standardized basic life support skill tests during 3-minute testing scenarios. Video review by 2independent experts will be utilized for objective assessment of time and order dependent skills, and manikin output will be utilized to assess qualitative effectiveness of skills (adequate ventilation, compression, and defibrillation).
Survey Instrument for Barriers to Acute Medicine Education:
A survey tool will be used to identify barriers to acute medicine education implementation and efficacy.
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills.
Measured: 1 year
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted15 Jul 2008 (estimated)
- Study startJan 2009
- Primary completionJun 2010
- Study completionSep 2010
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Medical EducationStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Factorial
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 215 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Laerdal Medical
- Investigators
- Pete Meaney, MD, Principal investigator, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00715767
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2008-1-5700
- Acronym
- BLSinBotswana
- Status last verified
- Oct 2010
- First submitted
- 14 Jul 2008
- Last updated
- 14 Oct 2010
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 14 Oct 2010. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Correlation of Cognitive and Technical Skills Assessment for Basic Life Support and Identification of Barriers to Cross-Cultural Education
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00715767
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- BLSinBotswana / 2008-1-5700
- Conditions
- Medical Education
- Keywords
- BLS training, CPR, post graduate education, resource-limited settings, medical education, CPR retention, cultural barriers
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 215 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Laerdal Medical
- Study start
- Jan 2009
- Primary completion
- Jun 2010 (actual)
- Study completion
- Sep 2010 (actual)
- First posted
- 15 Jul 2008 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This is a randomized, multi-center intervention trial comparing two educational programs on healthcare provider performance in the Botswana national hospital system. This study addresses the critical question of how to effectively and consistently measure and associate CPR knowledge and psychomotor skills, enabling the optimization of the learners' environment.
Detailed description
Context: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 16 million people die from cardiovascular diseases each year, accounting for more than one-third of global deaths. Almost half of these deaths take place in hospitalized settings. Standard acute medicine education programs have had limited success in training hospital based healthcare providers to acquire, retain, and transfer knowledge and skills to impact patient outcomes in both developed and developing countries. There is a gap between the cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills attained during courses and the technical and team skills actually performed by hospital-based healthcare providers. This gap between existing knowledge and performed skills restricts care delivery, underutilizes available resources, and contributes to the number of preventable deaths. This gap is further accentuated in resource limited settings, where barriers to implementation of successful acute medicine training programs are often accentuated.
Primary Objective:
- To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills which are associated with technical and team skills performance assessed immediately following Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Providers course training.
Secondary Objectives:
- To identify cultural, healthcare environment and educational barriers that currently impede acquisition, retention, and transfer of knowledge and skills in acute medicine educational programs in resource limited settings.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Factorial
- Masking
- None (open label)
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Healthcare providers involved in patient contact.
- Participation in BLS for Healthcare Provider Course
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Have received formal Basic Life Support training in previous 12 months.
- Inability to perform or complete cognitive and skills assessment testing (pre, immediate post, 3 or six month post).
- Healthcare personnel performing an educational rotation at the district or referral hospital will not be eligible due to loss of follow-up.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| AssessmentAlso: cognitive assessment, critical thinking, outcome measures of adequacy of chest compressions, outcome measures of adequacy of ventilationsCognitive Assessment: Knowledge base and critical thinking will be evaluated by a 50-question BLS multiple-choice examination. At the designated 4 cognitive assessments in the study (pre-course, immediately post course, 3 months and 6 months) 50 equivalent questions will be used to cover all core BLS objectives. Technical Skills Assessment: Primary outcome measures of adequacy of chest compressions and ventilations as well as key actions for each of the 3standardized basic life support skill tests during 3-minute testing scenarios. Video review by 2independent experts will be utilized for objective assessment of time and order dependent skills, and manikin output will be utilized to assess qualitative effectiveness of skills (adequate ventilation, compression, and defibrillation). Survey Instrument for Barriers to Acute Medicine Education: A survey tool will be used to identify barriers to acute medicine education implementation and efficacy. | Behavioural | – |
Primary outcome
To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills.
Time frame: 1 year
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 14 Oct 2010.
Related trials for Medical Education
Recruiting
Linking Education, Produce Provision, and Community Referrals to Improve Diabetes Care (LINK)
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Nutrition Poor
Not yet recruiting
Title of Study: Anesthesiologists' Learning Curves for Ultrasound Assessment of Difficult Airway
Airway Ultrasound, Difficult Airway Management
Not yet recruiting
Comparing the Efficacy of a Conversational Agent (QuitBot) Versus Standard Health Education on Smoking Cessation Among Medical Students in Cairo University
Conversational Agent, Smoking Cessation
Not yet recruitingObservational study
Federated Learning in Renal Tumor Model
Renal Tumors
Not yet recruiting
Generative AI-Assisted Personalized Feedback for Laparoscopic Skill Learning in Medical Undergraduates
Medical Education
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Pete Meaney, MD principal investigator
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Assessment in people with Medical Education, run by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 Oct 2010. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
To determine selected cognitive knowledge and critical thinking skills. (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 Oct 2010.