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  • Emergency Medicine
  • Public Health Interventions
  • Prehospital Care

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  • First aid by laypeople is crucial for acute, life-threatening conditions in prehospital care.
  • Training laypeople is assumed to enhance first aid competencies and improve health outcomes.
  • This review assesses the impact of first aid training on health outcomes, care quality, and helping behaviors.

Approach:

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cluster-RCTs.
  • Included laypeople comparing first aid training with no training or alternative training.
  • Searched multiple databases up to December 16, 2024, assessing risk of bias using Cochrane RoB 2 tool.

Key Points:

  • No studies reported on health outcomes of recipients or quality of first aid provided.
  • First aid training likely enhances short-term knowledge (moderate certainty), skills (moderate certainty), and self-efficacy (moderate certainty).
  • Evidence on helping behavior and willingness to help is very uncertain due to high risk of bias and imprecision.

Conclusions:

  • First aid training appears to improve immediate knowledge, skills, and confidence among lay responders.
  • Current evidence is insufficient to conclude on the impact of training on actual patient health outcomes or care quality.
  • Further high-quality research is needed to clarify the long-term effects and impact on critical outcomes.