Development, validation and assessment of the test on knowledge about basic life support and use of automated external defibrillator among schoolchildren.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Educating lay public can significantly strengthen the Chain of Survival after out of hospital cardiac arrest. Schoolchildren are an accessible population for learning basic life support (BLS) and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) and can be regarded as multipliers of knowledge that can reach the whole population. This study aimed to develop and validate a test for examining levels of knowledge about BLS and AED among schoolchildren that can be used to uniformly present reliable data.

Methods

A knowledge test about BLS and AED consisting of 10 multiple-choice questions was developed and implemented before and after a 2-h BLS and AED course consisting of an interactive lecture and a practical workshop for 783 students in seventh and ninth grades of el

SUBMITTER: Borovnik Lesjak V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6929301 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature