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“You can also save a life!”: children’s drawings as a non-verbal assessment of the impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training

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Drawings made by training children into cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during the special education week called “School otherwise” can be used as non-verbal means of expression and communication to assess the impact of such training. We analyzed the questionnaires and drawings completed by 327 schoolchildren in different stages of education. After a brief overview of the basic life support (BLS) steps and after watching a video presenting the dynamic performance of the BLS sequence, subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire and make a drawing to express main CPR messages. Questionnaires were filled completely in 97.6 % and drawings were done in 90.2 % cases. Half of the subjects had already witnessed a kind of medical emergency and 96.94 % knew the correct “112” emergency phone number. The drawings were single images (83.81 %) and less cartoon strips (16.18 %). Main themes of the slogans were “Save a life!”, “Help!”, “Call 112!”, “Do not be indifferent/insensible/apathic!” through the use of drawings interpretation, CPR trainers can use art as a way to build a better relation with schoolchildren, to connect to their thoughts and feelings and obtain the highest quality education

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Acknowledgments

The research team would like to thank all the children and teachers from the following Romanian schools and high schools: Colegiul National “Costache Negruzzi”, Iaşi; Colegiul National”M. Sadoveanu”, Iaşi; Scoala nr. 6, Roşiorii de Vede (Teleorman County); Colegiul National “Vasile Lucaciu”, Baia Mare; Scoala Gimnaziala Ghimbav (Braşov County), and a Râmnicu Sărat school for joining this project.

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  1. Cardiology Clinic, “St. Spiridon” County Emergency Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iaşi, B-dul Indepedenţei no. 1, 700111, Iaşi, Romania

    Antoniu Octavian Petriş

  2. Cardiology Clinic, “Floreasca” Emergency Hospital, Bucureşti, Romania

    Gabriel Tatu-Chiţoiu

  3. Discipline Emergency Medicine, “St. Spiridon” County Emergency Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

    Diana Cimpoeşu

  4. County Emergency Hospital Teleorman, Alexandria, Romania

    Daniela Florentina Ionescu

  5. County Emergency Hospital Baia Mare, University “Vasile Goldiş”, Arad, Romania

    Călin Pop

  6. County Emergency Hospital Râmnicu-Sărat, Brăila, Romania

    Nadia Oprea

  7. Faculty of Medicine, “Transilvania” University Braşov, ICCO Clinics Braşov, Romania, Strada Universităţii 1, 500068, Braşov, Romania

    Diana Ţînţ

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Petriş, A.O., Tatu-Chiţoiu, G., Cimpoeşu, D. et al. “You can also save a life!”: children’s drawings as a non-verbal assessment of the impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. Intern Emerg Med 12, 365–369 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-016-1469-8

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