Crossing life-saving thresholds: learning-forgetting trajectories in secondary-school basic life-support training: project threshold-beat
Raquel Cantón-Cortés, Pedro Fernández-Florido, Azahara Fernández-Carbonell, Francisco Manuel Parrilla-Ruiz, Gerardo Gómez-Moreno, María de los Ángeles Hernández-París, José Miguel Pérez-Villares, Antonio Cárdenas-Cruz · 2026
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Description
Raquel Cantón-Cortés and seven co-authors follow schoolchildren's life-support knowledge as it rises and fades, in this 2026 study. Teaching basic life support in schools is a public health priority, yet how long the knowledge lasts was poorly charted. Their project, Threshold-Beat, tracked six threshold concepts, the transformative ideas the skill rests on.
Four hundred fifty-nine students aged twelve to fifteen in six schools took the same test before training, right after, and six months later. Scores jumped from 40.5 to 67.3 percent with instruction, then slid to 55.1 percent by six months. Girls and older students retained more. Recognizing agonal breathing, the gasping that signals arrest, faded fastest, losing twenty-seven percent, while time-critical judgment barely decayed. The authors recommend short quarterly refreshers aimed at the fastest-fading concepts.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Raquel Cantón-Cortés, Pedro Fernández-Florido, Azahara Fernández-Carbonell, Francisco Manuel Parrilla-Ruiz, Gerardo Gómez-Moreno, María de los Ángeles Hernández-París, José Miguel Pérez-Villares, Antonio Cárdenas-Cruz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |