CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND PEDAGOGY article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1616459
A PRACTICE-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR BASIC LIFE SUPPORT TRAINING OF BRAZILIAN SCHOOL TEACHERS: INTEGRATING LAW 13,722/2018, ANDRAGOGY, AND THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL
Provisionally accepted
Cyntia Souza Carvalho Castanha1Blanca Elena Guerrero Daboin2Juliana Zangirolami Raimundo1Luis Fernando Barbosa Tavares1Luiz Carlos de Abreu2
Rodrigo Daminello Raimundo1*- 1Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
The importance of immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and proper use of auto-mated external defibrillators in increasing survival rates for cardiac arrest victims is well established. Expanding public access to CPR training and promoting timely emergency response can significantly improve outcomes. Although various global initiatives exist, the inclusion of CPR training in Brazilian school curricula remains limited. The enactment of Law 13,722 in October 2018 marked a major legislative milestone, mandating first aid training for staff in all schools and child recreational facilities as of March 2019. However, implementation challenges persist across Brazil's diverse and expansive territory. This paper introduces a structured educational framework for Basic Life Support training, incorporating the first three components of the Chain of Survival: recognizing cardiac arrest, activating emergency services, and delivering high-quality CPR. Grounded in Andragogy and the Health Belief Model, the framework emphasizes adult learning principles while enhancing teachers' knowledge, motivation, self-efficacy, and readiness to act. To support program design and scalability, a Logic Model (resources-to-outcomes map) outlines key implementation steps, while the CIPP model is proposed for monitoring and evaluation. This integrated approach provides a practical, adaptable foundation for implementing school-based emergency preparedness across Brazil, while also creating a scalable pathway that could extend benefits to the broader community through increased CPR readiness.
Keywords: Cardiac arrest, Basic life support (BLS), CPR training, School teachers, Health BeliefModel (HBM), logic model, CIPP model, Brazil Law 13,722
Received: 22 Apr 2025; Accepted: 19 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Carvalho Castanha, Guerrero Daboin, Zangirolami Raimundo, Barbosa Tavares, de Abreu and Raimundo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Rodrigo Daminello Raimundo, rodrigo.raimundo@fmabc.br
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.