About this trial
The goal of this web-based randomized clinical trial is to evaluate whether an e-learning training program improves the accuracy of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and modified Rankin Scale (mRS) assessments among practicing paramedics in French-speaking Switzerland who have not previously received formal training in these scales.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Does e-learning training improve performance on a standardized NIHSS assessment quiz compared with no prior training? * Does e-learning training improve the accuracy of mRS assessment using case-based clinical vignettes compared with no prior training?
Researchers will compare paramedics who complete the NIHSS and mRS e-learning modules before assessment (intervention group) with paramedics who complete the assessments without prior training (control group) to determine whether e-learning training leads to higher assessment performance scores.
Participants will:
* Provide electronic informed consent via a secure web-based platform * Be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group * Complete either the e-learning modules before assessment or the assessments before training, depending on group allocation * Complete an online NIHSS quiz and mRS case-based vignettes * Receive access to the NIHSS and mRS e-learning modules by the end of the study
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Holding a paramedic title (recognized in Switzerland)
Currently actively practicing in Switzerland
Fluent in French (all study material will be provided in French)
Disqualifiers
Previously completed formal training on either the NIHSS or the mRS.
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Educational intervention
Other interventionEducational intervention by the mean of an e-learning modules (NIHSS and mRS).
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Performance on a NIHSS 50-item quiz
The primary outcome will be the performance on a NIHSS 50-item quiz consisting in 3 full assessments of a patient (3x15 items) plus 5 general questions (each question scores 1 point if correct, maximum total of 50 points).
Secondary outcomes
Performance of mRS assessment
The secondary outcome will be the performance of mRS assessment of about 10 newly developed case-based vignettes (each question scores 1 point if correct, maximum total of 10 points).
Sponsors and contacts
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Stuby Loric
Lead sponsor
Geneve TEAM Ambulances
Sponsor institution
University Hospital, Geneva
Collaborator
Geneve TEAM Ambulances
Collaborator
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