A Smartphone Application Designed to Teach EmergencySkills to ChildrenDr. Joelene Huber, MD FRCPC, PhD, MscDr.Catharine Walsh, MD, Med, PhD, FRCPC

Study Team• Dr. Joelene Huber, Principal investigator, Developmental

Pediatrician• Dr. Catharine Walsh, Co-Principal Investigator, Education

Researcher• Ankit Guglani, Marki Sveen and Nitin Malik, Mobile Application

Developer, Computer Science Student• Thivia Jegathesan, Research Coordinator in Department of

Pediatrics• Sarah Davis, Behavior Therapist• Jean Phan, Research Assistant, Life Science Student• Dr. Niraj Mistry, Co-investigator, Mobile Health Expert• Dr. Elizabeth Young, Co-investigator, Developmental Pediatrician• Dr. Douglas Campbell, Co-investigator, Director of Allan Walters

Simulation Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital• Dr. Joey Bonifacio, Co-investigator, Adolescent Medicine • Dr. Alex Mihalidis, Biomedical Engineer, Toronto Rehabilitation

Institute

Children Saving Lives

Emergency Simulation Teaching

Didactic Emergency Teaching

Didactic Teaching

Emergency Simulation Teaching: 9-1-1 Heroes

Simulations

Assemble An Interdisciplinary Team

9-1-1 Heroes App Development

9-1-1 Heroes App Features

9-1-1 Heroes App Features

Smartphone Application to Teach Emergency Skills to Children

Purpose: The need for smartphone application in teaching children emergency skills

Methods:Baseline Assessment: 9-1-1 Emergency Simulation

•Behaviour skills 9-1-1 task analysis checklist 45 minutes educational Session

•Didactic teaching of Emergency Skills •Simulation Teaching: 9-1-1 Heroes APP

Post Assessment: 9-1-1 Emergency Simulation•Behaviour skills 9-1-1 task analysis checklist

Questionnaires •Demographic •Follow-up

Results

• 70% of intervention group identified emergency (42.9% of kindergarten, 33.3% first, 100% second and third grades

• 54.8 % of the traditional group (20% of Kindergarten, 66.7% first and third grades, 85.7% second grade

Results

Results

Future Directions

• Further App Development • Simulations Teaching vs. Didactic Teaching

Questions?