NCT05977530

Teaching Young Children Swim Survival Skills

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Months – 23 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Drowning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	self-rescue training	children will receive training for self-rescue if they are alone in water

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-16
• Primary completion: 2024-11-01
• Completion: 2024-11-23
• First posted: 2023-08-04
• Last updated: 2025-02-28
• Results posted: 2025-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States