Table 4:
Identified codes that explain perceptions on why women receive less bystander CPR stratified by respondent sex
| Free Text Codes | Total use of Code n=542 |
Female use of Code n=270 |
Male use of Code n=267 |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accused of sexual assault (sexual harassment) | 183 (33.8%) | 79 (29.3%) | 104 (40.0%) | 0.01 |
| Accused of physical assault | 8 (1.5%) | 4 (1.5%) | 4 (1.5%) | 0.63 |
| Accused of assault without context (Not sexual or physical) | 22 (4.1%) | 14 (5.2%) | 8 (3.0%) | 0.14 |
| Afraid to hurt/injure | 76 (14.0%) | 44 (16.3%) | 31 (11.6%) | 0.07 |
| Inappropriate touching | 188 (34.7%) | 87 (32.2%) | 100 (37.5%) | 0.12 |
| Breasts/Exposure | 124 (22.9%) | 61 (22.6%) | 62 (23.2%) | 0.47 |
| Mouth to mouth | 15 (2.8%) | 6 (2.2%) | 9 (3.4%) | 0.29 |
| Women don’t have cardiac arrest/cardiac disease | 42 (7.7%) | 24 (8.9%) | 18 (6.7%) | 0.22 |
| Women are emotional, overdramatic, faking | 26 (4.8%) | 16 (5.9%) | 10 (3.7%) | 0.32 |
| Men are less likely to help | 14 (2.6%) | 6 (2.2%) | 8 (3.0%) | 0.39 |
| Society/Stigma | 11 (2.0%) | 9 (3.3%) | 2 (0.8%) | 0.03 |
| No comment/Don’t know | 57 (10.5%) | 28 (10.4%) | 28 (10.5%) | 0.54 |