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Improving Law Enforcement Use of AEDs for Cardiac Arrest

This study is looking at whether a special online video, called an AED training adjunct, can help law enforcement officers feel more confident and be more likely to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) when someone has a heart attack (cardiac arrest). The researchers also want to see if this training can help reduce differences in how often AEDs are used on women. You can join if you are a law enforcement officer aged 18 or older from the greater Portland area. The study will measure if your confidence to use an AED changes right after the video, and then will track how often AEDs are used over 18 months. The current recruitment status is unclear.

Study design
This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 30 participants. It is a pilot study examining an education intervention.
What's involved
You will complete a brief survey, watch an AED training video online, and then complete another survey. All these steps are done online at your own pace.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Your AED application will be tracked prospectively over 18 months following the training intervention.

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NCT07649616

Increasing Law Enforcement Application of Automated External Defibrillators (AED)s for Cardiac Arrest

Enrolling by Invitation
NAAges 18+Interventional
Wayne State University
~30 participants
Updated 2026-08-19 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:AED training adjunct

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in Confidence to Attach Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Pads on a Woman
Measured over Immediately following the AED training intervention
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Heart Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital
Defibrillators

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Michigan1

Study leadership

  • Robert Ploutz-Snyder, PhD, PStat(r) · STUDY_CHAIR · Wayne State University

Who to contact

This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Law enforcement officers from agencies in the greater Portland area served by the Portland Cardiac Arrest Epidemiologic Registry
aged 18 years of age and older

Exclusion

none

What this trial measures

  • Change in Confidence to Attach Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Pads on a WomanImmediately following the AED training intervention

    The primary training outcome is, "I am confident I can always attach AED pads in the correct position on a woman". This question is a modified question from a validated tool to measure changes in self-efficacy, the Basic Resuscitation Skills Self-Efficacy Scale, which measures "can do" using 0-100.

  • Change in AED ApplicationProspectively over 18 months following AED training intervention

    Our primary care outcome is, change in AED application by law enforcement among adult cases with law enforcement on-scene before Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrival overall and stratified by gender relative to the same geographic region in the preceding 5-year period. The outcome will be measured using the Portland Cardiac Arrest Epidemiologic Registry (PDX Epistry), an existing observational registry used for quality improvement and research.