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NCT05977530

Teaching Young Children Swim Survival Skills

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 28 February 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing self-rescue training in Drowning in 50 participants. Completed in 23 November 2024.

Timeline
16 September 2024
Primary endpoint
1 November 2024
23 November 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposeprevention
Enrollment50
Start date16 September 2024
Primary completion1 November 2024
Estimated completion23 November 2024
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Who can join

Adults 12 Months to 23 Months, any sex, with Drowning. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Children's Self-rescue Ability Primary · at completion of training intervention program, an anticipated average of 4 weeks

Assessment of whether children demonstrates ability to engage independently and safely in water, without adult assistance. This was measured through a standardized behavioral observation of children's behavior in a swimming pool. It was scored in a binary fashion as "yes" or "no", with each child in the study scored either "yes" or "no".

GroupValue95% CI
Self-rescue Training48

Sponsor's own description

This study is designed to evaluate whether commercially-available swim self-rescue schools are effective to teach children ages 12-23 months to stay safely alive floating in the water (or grasping the pool's edge) without adult intervention. The investigators will measure children's water self-rescue skills at baseline and then they will engage in commercially-available training over the course of several weeks. The investigators will then measure their skills again. Assessments will be conducted using a standardized protocol with a certified lifeguard present. Parents will also complete a short survey concerning child and family demographics and child and family swim and lifeguard training experience.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

  1. Toddler drowning prevention through self-rescue: can 1-year-old children learn to float?
    Schwebel DC, Johnston A. · · 2025 · PMID 41219144 · DOI 10.1136/ip-2025-045688

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