Table 3.
Comparative analysis of auditory and audiovisual groups of first-aid performance for infant choking.
| Assessment Items | Auditory (n = 40) |
Audiovisual (n = 39) |
p-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adequacy of | ① Infant position | 31 (77.5%) | 39 (100.0%) | 0.002 |
| ② Supporting arm posture | 12 (30.0%) | 27 (69.2%) | <0.001 | |
| ③ Hand posture of the supporting arm | 10 (25.0%) | 15 (38.5%) | 0.233 | |
| ④ Head tilt | 12 (30.0%) | 39 (100.0%) | <0.001 | |
| ⑤ Location of back blows | 22 (55.0%) | 31 (79.5%) | 0.138 | |
| ⑥ Number of back blows | 29 (72.5%) | 34 (87.2%) | 0.105 | |
| ⑦ Hand part for back blows | 19 (47.5%) | 31 (79.5%) | 0.009 | |
| ⑧ Location of chest thrusts | 32 (80.0%) | 30 (76.9%) | 0.136 | |
| ⑨ Number of chest thrusts | 40 (100.0%) | 34 (87.2%) | 0.026 | |
| ⑩ Repeating two maneuvers | 36 (90.0%) | 38 (97.4%) | 0.175 | |
| Instruction Performance score | 6.13 ± 2.27 | 8.15 ± 1.31 | <0.001 | |
| Time to first back blow | 52.88 ± 12.56 | 53.05 ± 10.95 | 0.498 | |
| Time to finish the first cycle | 77.38 ± 14.03 | 112.58 ± 144.38 | 0.118 | |
| Time from the second to the third cycle * | 19.31 ± 4.40 | 22.29 ± 4.64 | 0.332 | |
| Time to finish the third cycle * | 112.53 ± 17.99 | 128.76 ± 17.64 | 0.332 | |
* The analysis was conducted on the auditory (n = 36) and audiovisual (n = 38) groups, excluding cases in which the two maneuvers were not performed repeatedly.