CPR Education Via a Mobile Application Compared to VSI Kit

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Cardiac Arrest; Coronary Disease

• Registration Number: NCT02548793
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

Prompt delivery of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a crucial determinant of survival for many victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), yet bystander CPR is provided in less than one third of witnessed SCA events. A number of barriers to bystander CPR training have been identified including time and cost of the training course. Since the large majority of arrest events occur in the home environment, studies have suggested that providing CPR training to family members of hospitalized cardiac patients may serve as a useful approach to address an environment in which bystander CPR is frequently not provided. Utilizing an existing in-hospital program to train adult family members, the investigators will assess the skills of those who learn CPR through two different educational methods: a mobile app and video self-instruction (VSI).

Detailed Description

The long term goal of the investigators work is to implement real world CPR training strategies that match training locales with at-risk populations, maximize resuscitation skill retention, and promote willingness to act. To accomplish this, the investigators will empower stakeholders at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and local area hospitals to develop local implementation approaches, using either volunteer hospital personnel or paid research assistants as training proctors. These stakeholders will be studied as a research subset. The training proctors will educate family members or friends of patients at risk for cardiac arrest using a mobile application "app" or VSI kit (RCT), and empower them with the lifesaving skill of CPR. The investigators will follow up with the study subjects and conduct CPR skills tests 6 to 12 months from the time of training to assess whether the subjects retained their skills or if they had an opportunity to use the skills that they learned. The investigators will also gather information on how the subjects would like to be encouraged to practice their skills. The investigators will send a reminder notification every two months following training, to encourage subjects to refresh their training skills. At the follow-up skills test at 6 to 12 months, the investigators will administer a survey to assess whether the prompting encouraged the subjects to practice their skills. Additionally the investigators will encourage the individuals trained in-hospital to share the kit or mobile app with others. The investigators will follow-up with those who are identified as secondary trainees to assess the environment in which secondary training took place.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2015-08-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-09-11
• Study First Posted: 2015-09-14
• Study Start: 2016-01
• Status Verified: 2018-10
• Primary Completion: 2018-10
• Study Completion: 2018-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-01-15
• Last Update Posted: 2019-01-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1679

Inclusion Criteria

• Subjects must be present with their family member at the hospital
• The family member must be at high risk for cardiac arrest (CA), including:
• previous myocardial infarction (MI)
• previous CA
• history of diabetes
• history of high cholesterol
• history of high blood pressure
• This includes subjects with family members being discharged from the Cardiac Intermediate Care Unit (CICU), Telemetry units, ICU, Cardiac Care Unit (CCU), cardiology clinics, or physicians office within the participating hospitals/health systems

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Exclusion Criteria

• Volunteers and subjects must be 18 years of age or older
• Individual must be fit and able to perform moderate physical activity
• Volunteers must be English speaking and/or Spanish speaking

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Chest compression rate	6 months	Rate of chest compressions performed by the subject, recorded using the Laerdal SimPad®. This metric will be measured as the number of compressions performed in a 2 minute window. This outcome measure will be collected by research coordinators during 6-month in-home follow-up visits.
Chest compression depth	6 months	Depth of chest compression performed by the subject, recorded using the Laerdal SimPad®. This metric will be measured in millimeters (mm). This outcome measure will be collected by research coordinators during 6-month in-home follow-up visits.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary CPR training rates	6 months	Calculate the number of secondary trainees based on study participant self-reporting (via survey) collected during the 6-month follow-up.
Incidence of bystander CPR provided by subjects	6-12 months	Using 6 month and 12 month follow-up surveys, subjects will be asked if they had an opportunity to use their CPR skills in a real-life situation and whether or not they performed CPR in the aforementioned situation.

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

The Chester County Hospital and Health System; 🇺🇸 West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Cooper University Hospital; 🇺🇸 Camden, New Jersey, United States

Crozer-Keystone Health System; 🇺🇸 Upland, Pennsylvania, United States

Albert Einstein Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania Hospital; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States