Hello Prof São-Romão-Preto

There do seem to be some recent papers on the subject but some are for specific professional groups. The first is a tutorial and assessment:

The CARE CERTIFICATE: Basic Life Support

http://hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/321/files/2015/01/Standard-12.pdf.

Aaberg, A. M. R., Larsen, C. E. B., Rasmussen, B. S., Hansen, C. M., & Larsen, J. M. (2014). Basic life support knowledge, self-reported skills and fears in Danish high school students and effect of a single 45-min training session run by junior doctors; a prospective cohort study. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med, 22(1), 24.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261732765

These are designed for professional groups:

Alam, T., Jamil Khattak, Y., Anwar, M., & Khan, A. A. (2014). Basic Life Support: A Questionnaire Survey to Assess Proficiency of Radiologists and Radiology Residents in Managing Adult Life Support in Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Acute Anaphylactic Reaction. Emergency medicine international, 2014.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/emi/2014/356967/

Srinivas, H. T., Kotekar, N., & Rao, S. R. (2014). A survey of basic life support awareness among final year undergraduate medical, dental, and nursing students. International Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 3(2), 91.

http://www.ijhas.in/article.asp?issn=2278-344X;year=2014;volume=3;issue=2;spage=91;epage=94;aulast=Srinivas

This paper discusses the use of a questionnaire:

Roshana, S., Batajoo, K. H., Piryani, R. M., & Sharma, M. W. (2012). Basic life support: knowledge and attitude of medical/paramedical professionals. World journal of emergency medicine, 3(2), 141.

http://www.wjem.org/upload/admin/201205/ee9651bf23ea50868cc738d921ab76d1.pdf

Very best wishes

Mary

Article Basic life support knowledge, skills and fears in Danish hig...

Hi Leonel,

We developed and validated a multiple-choice questionnaire to assess cognitive knowledge in BLS/AED amongst nursing students. This is the reference:

Hernández-Padilla, J.M., Suthers, F., Granero-Molina, J., & Fernández-Sola, C. (2015) Effects of two retraining strategies on nursing students’ acquisition and retention of BLS/AED skills: A cluster randomised trial. Resuscitation, 93, 27-34. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.05.008 (Available in: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277477651_Effects_of_two_retraining_strategies_on_nursing_students_acquisition_and_retention_of_BLSAED_skills_A_cluster_randomised_trial)

If you need the actual questionnaire I can send it to you in English or Spanish via email.

Please, note that we developed our tool from an already-existing one, which you can find here:

http://www.heartandlung.org/article/S0147-9563(13)00355-5/abstract

I hope this helps.

Article Effects of two retraining strategies on nursing students’ ac...

Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900734/

Have look at this article and you will find a questionnaire in it. Good luck with your study 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Bonacaro2/publication/275231839_Teaching_Basic_Life_Support_to_the_Digital_Generation_A_Randomized_Trial_Comparing_Video-Assisted_versus_Practical_Simulation/links/5535fe7e0cf218056e92afc4.pdf?inViewer=true&pdfJsDownload=true&disableCoverPage=true&origin=publication_detail

Article Teaching Basic Life Support to the Digital Generation: A Ran...

Well, in my opinion, the university students are laypersons who do not know yet about BLS technique and competence, although they are awareness well about.

According to the BLS questions, I am sure that you knew well about, indeed!  

Here I just want to share with you regarding to my previous experiment in the classroom for the new topic for the nursing students.

In order to get quality data about laypersons information about BLS, you must took twice surveys related to general BLS in the prior study.

It has been done nicely in my previous teaching learning about a new topic to my students. Firstly, I told the learning objectives to the students in the class, then given questionnaires related to the topic. Secondly, let them discuss each other regarding to the questions between friends surrounding. Then, give them the same questions with the first question. After answering, we did compare about the correct answers. From that data, I go forwards to teach and really, it very effective class, indeed! The students have paid an attention in class for coming test and practice. That's all

Hi Prof São-Romão-Preto

One of my colleagues did her doctoral research on Basic Life Support. Part of which involved high school students and their teachers exploring attitudes and knowledge among others. You might want to contact her directly. Dr Catherine Madden, School of Health SCiences, Waterford Institute of Technology waterford Ireland. Email: [email protected] 

Regards

Brian