Cui Lu1, Ying-Hui Jin2, Xiao-Tong Shi3, Wen-Jing Ma4, Yun-Yun Wang5, Wei Wang6, Yao Zhang7. 1. Emergency Department, TEDA Hospital, Tianjin, China. 2. Nursing School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China. Electronic address: jinyinghui0301@163.com. 3. Department of Respiration and Critical Care Medicine, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China. 4. Infectious Diseases Department, No. 2 Subsidiary Hospital of No. 4 Military Medical University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China. 5. The Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China. 6. Nursing School, Peking University, Beijing, China. 7. Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Low rates of bystander-initiated CPR are a major obstacle to improved survival rates, and the aim of this study is to elucidate the factors associated with university students' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to 18 universities across three metropolises in China. One question asking for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR was set as the dependent variable, and the logistic regression models were used to extract independent factors for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR. RESULTS: 2934 questionnaires were completed, with a response rate of 81.5%. Results suggested that predictors of willingness to perform bystander CPR were: previous experience of performing bystander CPR, higher self-perceived ability to perform bystander CPR properly after instruction, medicine and law discipline, male gender, not being the single child of their parents, higher participation in university societies, being used to taking decisive action immediately, less self-perceived life stress and higher self-perceived knowledge level of CPR. CONCLUSIONS: Persons having previous experience of performing bystander CPR and those who thought they would have the ability to perform bystander CPR properly are predominantly associated with willingness to perform bystander CPR. Psychological and cultural factors need further study.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Low rates of bystander-initiated CPR are a major obstacle to improved survival rates, and the aim of this study is to elucidate the factors associated with university students' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to 18 universities across three metropolises in China. One question asking for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR was set as the dependent variable, and the logistic regression models were used to extract independent factors for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR. RESULTS: 2934 questionnaires were completed, with a response rate of 81.5%. Results suggested that predictors of willingness to perform bystander CPR were: previous experience of performing bystander CPR, higher self-perceived ability to perform bystander CPR properly after instruction, medicine and law discipline, male gender, not being the single child of their parents, higher participation in university societies, being used to taking decisive action immediately, less self-perceived life stress and higher self-perceived knowledge level of CPR. CONCLUSIONS:Persons having previous experience of performing bystander CPR and those who thought they would have the ability to perform bystander CPR properly are predominantly associated with willingness to perform bystander CPR. Psychological and cultural factors need further study.
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