Facilitating Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training in high-risk areas study

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Facilitating Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training in high-risk areas study

We know that if someone nearby knows how to do CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and use a machine to restart their heart, it can be the difference between life and death for someone who has a cardiac arrest.

In some areas, people are more likely to have a cardiac arrest combined with less chance of a bystander doing CPR before an ambulance arrives. We are calling these high-risk areas, which are often poorer and have a mix of people from diverse communities living there.

We want to listen to people from high-risk areas to work out why this is happening and find out:

Things that stop people from helping someone having a cardiac arrest
Things that would help them get involved

We will come up with and test solutions to help bystanders help a person who is having a cardiac arrest.

The study has three parts using the following methods:

Realist synthesis, informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework, of published literature and data from workshops with people from communities with characteristics of high-risk areas.
Theoretically informed intervention development building on the synthesis findings.
Realist implementation evaluation with embedded feasibility in up to six English high-risk areas.

Access the University of Warwick FACT study webpage

Aims

In collaboration with people from Black African and Caribbean and South Asian communities in more deprived areas we aim to:

Identify reasons for low bystander resuscitation rates in those communities living in high-risk areas through literature and primary evidence synthesis
Develop, implement, and evaluate theoretically informed interventions.