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Retention of Knowledge and Skills After a Basic Life Support Course for Schoolchildren: A Prospective Study.
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- Crossing life-saving thresholds: learning-forgetting trajectories in secondary-school basic life-support training: project threshold-beat.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Enhancing Equity in Schoolchildren's Basic Life Support Education in Brazil Through Serious Games: Cohort Study.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- Effect of Repeated Education on ICU Nurses' Knowledge and Performance in MDRO Infection Control: A Pretest-Posttest Study.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Attitudes and Skills in Basic Life Support after Two Types of Training: Traditional vs. Gamification, of Compulsory Secondary Education Students: A Simulation Study.Pediatric reports · 2024Article
- Six years of spreading BLSD skills in schools: empowering teachers as trainers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Methods to teach schoolchildren how to perform and retain cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Resuscitation plus · 2023Review
- Learning of Basic Life Support through the Flipped Classroom in Secondary Schoolchildren: A Quasi-Experimental Study with 12-Month Follow-Up.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- The Effects of an Intervention Based on the Flipped Classroom on the Learning of Basic Life Support in Schoolchildren Aged 10-13 Years: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Courses on basic life support (BLS) and automated external defibrillator (AED) in schools lead to increase in knowledge but its retention is less well explored. We aimed to explore the long-term retention of knowledge and practical skills among schoolchildren after a BLS and AED course to be able to tailor future courses accordingly. Study was conducted in 3 parts and included 823 seventh and ninth graders from different elementary schools in Maribor, Slovenia. In Study 1 (n=611) we assessed students' baseline knowledge and immediate knowledge gain after our BLS and AED course with a validated questionnaire; in Study 2 (n=116) we assessed retention of gained knowledge and skills after 5 months with a modified Cardiff test and Little Anne QCPR manikin; in Study 3 (n=96) we assessed retention of knowledge 2 years after the course. Mean differences in knowledge before and after the course in Study 1 and between studies were analyzed using paired t-tests and independent t-tests. Differences between individual question scores at different time points were compared using Mann - Whitney
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