Pay It Forward: High School Video-based Instruction Can Disseminate CPR Knowledge in Priority Neighborhoods

Marina Del Rios; Josiah Han; Alejandra Cano; Victor Ramirez; Gabriel Morales; Teri L Campbell; Terry Vanden Hoek

doi:10.5811/westjem.2017.10.35108

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Pay It Forward: High School Video-based Instruction Can Disseminate CPR Knowledge in Priority Neighborhoods

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Pay It Forward: High School Video-based Instruction Can Disseminate CPR Knowledge in Priority Neighborhoods

Marina Del Rios, Josiah Han, Alejandra Cano, Victor Ramirez, Gabriel Morales, Teri L Campbell and Terry Vanden Hoek

The western journal of emergency medicine, Vol.19(2), pp.423-429

03/2018

DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2017.10.35108

PMCID: PMC5851521

PMID: 29560076

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Abstract

The implementation of creative new strategies to increase layperson cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation may improve resuscitation in priority populations. As more communities implement laws requiring CPR training in high schools, there is potential for a multiplier effect and reach into priority communities with low bystander-CPR rates. We investigated the feasibility, knowledge acquisition, and dissemination of a high school-centered, CPR video self-instruction program with a "pay-it-forward" component in a low-income, urban, predominantly Black neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois with historically low bystander-CPR rates. Ninth and tenth graders followed a video self-instruction kit in a classroom setting to learn CPR. As homework, students were required to use the training kit to "pay it forward" and teach CPR to their friends and family. We administered pre- and post-intervention knowledge surveys to measure knowledge acquisition among classroom and "pay-it-forward" participants. Seventy-one classroom participants trained 347 of their friends and family, for an average of 4.9 additional persons trained per kit. Classroom CPR knowledge survey scores increased from 58% to 93% (p < 0.0001). The pay-it-forward cohort saw an increase from 58% to 82% (p < 0.0001). A high school-centered, CPR educational intervention with a "pay-it-forward" component can disseminate CPR knowledge beyond the classroom. Because schools are centrally-organized settings to which all children and their families have access, school-based interventions allow for a broad reach that encompasses all segments of the population and have potential to decrease disparities in bystander CPR provision.

Adolescent

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - education

Chicago

Educational Measurement - statistics & numerical data

Female

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Humans

Male

Poverty

Schools

Students

Surveys and Questionnaires

Videotape Recording - statistics & numerical data

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Title: Subtitle: Pay It Forward: High School Video-based Instruction Can Disseminate CPR Knowledge in Priority Neighborhoods
Creators: Marina Del Rios - University of Illinois Chicago
Josiah Han - University of Illinois Chicago
Alejandra Cano - University of Illinois Chicago
Victor Ramirez - University of Illinois Chicago
Gabriel Morales - University of Washington
Teri L Campbell - University of Chicago
Terry Vanden Hoek - University of Illinois Chicago
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: The western journal of emergency medicine, Vol.19(2), pp.423-429
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2017.10.35108
PMID: 29560076
PMCID: PMC5851521
NLM abbreviation: West J Emerg Med
ISSN: 1936-900X
eISSN: 1936-9018
Language: English
Date published: 03/2018
Academic Unit: Emergency Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984297141802771

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