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Paediatric Manikins and School Nurses as Basic Life Support Coordinators: A Useful Strategy for Schools?
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Health Education Journal . Feb 2023 82(1):3-16. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Objective: To evaluate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills performance and retention in schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 years following instruction by their teachers and with the guidance of a school nurse using paediatric manikins. Design: Descriptive simulation trial. Method: A school nurse provided support to six schoolteachers as they taught a modified 40-minute CPR course. Pupils were shown an out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest recognition video followed by a CPR simulation using paediatric manikins. 117 schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 years received the training. Both the schoolchildren and teachers completed a survey before and afterwards. Children completed an out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest recognition test and a 1-minute CPR test 1 week later. Results: After training, schoolchildren increased their self-efficacy as rescuers (8 ± 2 vs 10 ± 2; p < 0.001). Irrespective of age differences, 74% of schoolchildren performed the entire out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest recognition sequence correctly. Children aged 11 to 12 years and 10 to 11 years performed higher quality CPR (49% and 47%, respectively) compared to 8 to 9 year olds (14%, p = 0.008 and p = 0.014). Children aged 11 to 12 years outperformed younger children aged 8 to 9 years with respect to compression depth (48 ± 6 mm vs 43 ± 5 mm, p = 0.008) Conclusion: Schoolchildren's teachers, who were guided by a nurse using paediatric manikins, taught children aged 10 to 12 years to perform high-quality CPR. We suggest integrating paediatric manikins as part of children's CPR training as feedback from successful CPR performance increases motivation and confidence to act as a rescuer as well as improves skills retention.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0017-8969 and 1748-8176
- Volume :
- 82
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Health Education Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1364878
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969221133238