Table 3 HBB Prompt app features during Phase 1b

Training videos

Series of training videos outlining the steps in HBB (Preparation for birth, Routine care, Golden Minute without ventilation, Golden Minute with ventilation, Golden Minute with normal or slow heart rate)

Videos to serve as review materials, with ability to visualize skills that are being demonstrated

Simulation mode—alone mode

Option of targeting practice to a specific scenario that an individual user chooses versus a random scenario that is chosen from the pool of standard scenarios (Preparation for birth, Routine care, Golden Minute without ventilation, Golden Minute with ventilation, Golden Minute with normal or slow heart rate)

Audio and visual cues that accompany the scenario that are timed to simulate an actual delivery

To help prompt users through simulated delivery scenarios to facilitate in context practice of skills

Simulation mode—rater mode

Same as alone mode except that the designated rater has a checklist available to review

To help prompt an observer to assess how well the user completes steps in the HBB algorithm in response to the prompts provided about the baby’s condition

To help facilitate team practice and peer-to-peer learning of HBB skills and to assist the rater to systematically give targeted feedback

Quizzes/Knowledge Check

Sets of quizzes with questions generated from the HBB curriculum

To help reinforce knowledge pertaining to the steps and reasoning for actions within the HBB algorithm

To address the fear of forgetting knowledge learned after initial training

Scoreboard/Dashboard

Visual tracker providing trends regarding practice frequency and knowledge assessment scores

Information to serve as an external motivator to practise regularly and perform as well if not better than peers

To increase accountability for practising and increase confidence in resuscitation skills with increased practice