The Feasibility of Using the National PulsePoint Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Responder Network to Facilitate Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution
The Feasibility of Using the National PulsePoint Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Responder Network to Facilitate Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution
This study is a feasibility trial to assess whether, in a random sample of 180 agencies where PulsePoint is already active, revised procedures (hereinafter PulsePoint-OD) to facilitate opioid overdose and naloxone distribution (OEND) can successfully recruit first responder agencies and layperson responders. For this study, agency refers to a single implementation site where PulsePoint is active and that is bound by the service area or jurisdiction of the first responder agency collaborating with PulsePoint.
The study will test the following hypotheses:
H1: more first responder agencies will be successfully recruited by arm 2 than by arm 1.
H2: more layperson responders will report engaging with OEND programming in arm 2 than in arms 1 or 3 and in arm 1 than in arm 3 [only this hypothesis is covered by the IRB, hypothesis 1 is not human subjects research].
A full, detailed description of the study protocol and preregistered procedures is located in our formal protocol paper (https://doi.org/10.2196/57280) which is also cited at the end of this specific registration.
All specific language throughout this document is derived directly (verbatim) from the protocol paper, which is our controlling, planned preregistration document for this project.
Layperson responders who are part of the PulsePoint system register with a local first responder agency using their smartphone. Anyone who is registered with a PulsePoint agency randomly selected for this project is included. Most layperson responders (eg, those who are not also off-duty first responders themselves) are only alerted to incidents in public spaces. No identifying information is collected from these users except the unique ID of the device.