Table 2. Participant concerns about using an AED.

AED: automatic external defibrillator; HoH: hard-of-hearing

	Overall (n=500)	Deaf (n=130)	HoH (n=370)	p-value (<0.05)
Need more training	23.60% (n=118)	21.54% (n=28)	24.32% (n=90)	0.520
Using an AED would be stressful	49.00% (n=245)	44.62% (n=58)	50.54% (n=187)	0.245
Using an AED is potentially dangerous	43.60% (n=218)	56.15% (n=73)	39.19% (n=145)	<0.001
AEDs are not generally user-friendly	40.00% (n=200)	28.46% (n=37)	44.05% (n=163)	0.441
AEDs are not user-friendly for deaf/HoH	36.40% (n=182)	29.23% (n=38)	38.92% (n=144)	0.034
AEDs are too technical/complicated	54.00% (n=270)	57.69% (n=75)	52.70% (n=195)	0.326