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Registration number
ACTRN12625001104448p
Ethics application status
Submitted, not yet approved
Date submitted
15/09/2025
Date registered
9/10/2025
Date last updated
9/10/2025
Date data sharing statement initially provided
9/10/2025
Type of registration
Prospectively registered

Titles & IDs
Public title
Investigating the impact of a ‘train the trainer’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) workshop on self efficacy of survivors of heart disease disease attending cardiac rehab
Scientific title
Investigating the impact of a ‘train the trainer’ CPR workshops on self efficacy of survivors of heart disease disease attending cardiac rehab
Secondary ID [1] 315386 0
None
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Cardiac Arrest 338889 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cardiovascular 335179 335179 0 0
Coronary heart disease
Emergency medicine 335180 335180 0 0
Resuscitation

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
The primary intervention in this study is the introduction of a ‘CPR train the trainer’ session. This training session will be delivered to eligible participants who volunteer as ‘peer trainers’ from within a cohort of patients attending a cardiac rehabilitation program at John Hunter Hospital. The training will be delivered as a a single face to face session lasting 60 minutes. The sessions will focus on the process of compression only CPR and will incorporate a series of CPR training videos that have been developed for the purpose of supporting peer-led CPR training in this trial. No formal assessment of competence will be used in this teaching session.

Other participants are able to volunteer as 'trainees:

Peer trainers: will be trained by the study team in CPR in a "train the trainer” style session and work with the study team to arrange and teach a face-to-face session where they will train a group of between 3 – 10 other community members (Trainees) in compression only CPR.
Trainees: will be receiving CPR instruction by a peer trainer in this study.

The ‘CPR train the trainer’ session will be delivered by professional CPR trainers (within the study team) and will consist of a single 60-minute face to face CPR train the trainer session, delivered to individual cardiac rehab participants. This training session will be structured around several training videos have been specifically developed for the trial. It is expected that these videos will be used by the ‘peer trainers’ to deliver their own training. These CPR training videos will be accessible via a QR code on provided ‘CPR lesson cards’, multi-modal training aids consisting of simple visual cues and a QR link to the training videos.

Following the original train the trainer session the peer trainers will deliver a training session to a small group of ‘trainees’ who will then be assessed by the study team.
Intervention code [1] 331994 0
Prevention
Intervention code [2] 332053 0
Behaviour
Intervention code [3] 332054 0
Rehabilitation
Comparator / control treatment
No control Group
Control group
Uncontrolled

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 342799 0
Composite Outcome - Self Efficacy, Motivation and Experience of Primary Participants (peer trainers)
Timepoint [1] 342799 0
1) Prior to attending training (pre) and immediately post completion of the community trainee session (post) 2) attended any time within the following 2-week period after the community trainee session
Secondary outcome [1] 452149 0
Self-efficacy of the secondary participants (community trainees)
Timepoint [1] 452149 0
Prior to attending training (pre) and immediately post completion of the community trainee session (post)
Secondary outcome [2] 452150 0
Effectiveness of Peer-Driven CPR Training (feasibility)
Timepoint [2] 452150 0
Immediately following completion of the peer led training session

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
1. Enrolled within a cardiac rehabilitation program at John Hunter Hospital between January 1st 2024 to December 31st 2026. (primary participants / peer trainers only)
2. Willing and able to provide consent. (all participants)

Healthy volunteers are able to participate as secondary participants i.e. primary participants in cardiac rehab are able to train their family members as 'secondary participants'
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
75 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
Yes
Key exclusion criteria
1. Are physically unable to perform CPR due to pre-existing physical limitation
2. Have any cognitive impairment which would limit their ability to participate in a peer driven CPR training program
3. Have previously attended CPR training within the past 12 months

Study design
Purpose of the study
Educational / counselling / training
Allocation to intervention
Non-randomised trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Single group
Other design features
Phase
Not Applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Not yet recruiting
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
3/11/2025
Actual
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
30/10/2026
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
30/10/2026
Actual
Sample size
Target
110
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW
Recruitment hospital [1] 28492 0
John Hunter Hospital - New Lambton
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 44727 0
2305 - New Lambton

Funding & Sponsors
Funding source category [1] 319975 0
Charities/Societies/Foundations
Name [1] 319975 0
Jack Murphy Memorial Society
Country [1] 319975 0
Australia
Primary sponsor type
Individual
Name
Jeremy Pallas - University of Newcastle / NSW Health
Address
Country
Australia
Secondary sponsor category [1] 322501 0
None
Name [1] 322501 0
Address [1] 322501 0
Country [1] 322501 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status
Submitted, not yet approved
Ethics committee name [1] 318513 0
Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee
Ethics committee address [1] 318513 0
Ethics committee country [1] 318513 0
Australia
Date submitted for ethics approval [1] 318513 0
29/09/2025
Approval date [1] 318513 0
Ethics approval number [1] 318513 0

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 144426 0
Mr Jeremy Pallas
Address 144426 0
John Hunter Emergency Department, Lookout Road, New Lambton Heights, NSW, 2305
Country 144426 0
Australia
Phone 144426 0
+61432035171
Fax 144426 0
Email 144426 0
[email protected]
Contact person for public queries
Name 144427 0
Jeremy Pallas
Address 144427 0
John Hunter Emergency Department, Lookout Road, New Lambton Heights, NSW, 2305
Country 144427 0
Australia
Phone 144427 0
+61249213000
Fax 144427 0
Email 144427 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries
Name 144428 0
Jeremy Pallas
Address 144428 0
John Hunter Emergency Department, Lookout Road, New Lambton Heights, NSW, 2305
Country 144428 0
Australia
Phone 144428 0
+61249213000
Fax 144428 0
Email 144428 0
[email protected]

Data sharing statement
Will the study consider sharing individual participant data?
No
No IPD sharing reason/comment: De-identified data will be collected and stored by respondent group only and as such, individual participant data will not be available to share.



What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided


Results publications and other study-related documents

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