By KSS YPAG,
At the YPAG KSS meeting in September held at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital in Brighton, the group heard from Freya, a researcher from King’s College London, and Izzie, a Paramedic, about a study called ‘The Child CPR Study’ which aims to generate new knowledge about the experiences and needs of children and young people who are involved in providing CPR in the community.
The group first met Freya at the YPAG online meeting in August when they advised on the study recruitment methods and information for potential participants. Izzie is a member of the Child CPR Study research team and became involved because she witnessed an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as a young person, she then went onto qualify as a paramedic. Freya, Izzie and the research team have incorporated the young people’s advice into their ongoing recruitment activities and the infographic was revised in light of the YPAG recommendations.
At the September meeting the YPAG learnt a little about Qualitative analysis and used this knowledge to carry out some preliminary analysis of anonymised interview data for a small number of the CPR study participants. They shared their views on the key themes that they found in this data, and their input will directly inform the ongoing data analysis and the study findings.
Freya said: “The Kent, Surrey and Sussex YPAG are a fantastic group of young people, who have offered thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into the conduct of our study and the data generated. Working with this group has been extremely rewarding and has supported us to keep the perspectives and wellbeing of young people at the heart of our research. Thank you!”
Christian, one of the YPAG KSS members, who attended both of Freya’s presentations said: “I believe that this study is very important, as understanding how young people feel when performing CPR can help us train them to handle the situation as well as possible.
From the accounts that I read, I noticed the theme of feeling confused and unsure whether they were doing the right thing or helping in the best way, which is something that I imagine that I would personally feel in such a situation. Perhaps using this knowledge to ensure that young people are re-assured during CPR training, or even by paramedics when having done it, that it is the best thing that they could do to help in that situation.
I also noticed that there was a theme of the young people being not entirely sure whether they had done it correctly. Perhaps this knowledge could be used to ensure that training is clearer and more accessible, which could make young people more confident not to doubt themselves when performing the CPR”.
The group look forward to hearing about the results from the study in the near future.
You can find out more about the Child CPR study on the King’s College London website
The YPAG KSS have updated their poster providing information about the group to researchers. The children and young people workshopped ideas resulting in this new design, which they hope will encourage paediatric health and social care researchers to get in touch.
How children, young people and families have improved the design, development and delivery of paediatric research.
These scenarios have been developed and tested by Generation R YPAGs.
