Table 3.
Attitudes and willingness to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation
| Total sample (n = 479) | Work in medical field (n = 202) | Do not work in medical field (n = 277) |
p value* | Total responding to “Do you work with Ambulances?” (n = 190) |
Work with ambulances (n = 73) |
Do not work with ambulances (n = 117) |
p value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I would give CPR to someone if they are...a | ||||||||
| A child, n (%) | 371 (77.5%) | 171 (84.7%) | 200 (72.2%) | 0.001 | 161 (84.7%) | 63 (86.3%) | 98 (83.8%) | 0.636 |
| My spouse/partner, n (%) | 388 (81.0%) | 175 (86.6%) | 213 (76.9%) | 0.007 | 165 (86.8%) | 65 (89.0%) | 100 (85.5%) | 0.479 |
| A stranger, n (%) | 282 (58.9%) | 155 (76.7%) | 127 (45.9%) | < .001 | 146 (76.8%) | 62 (84.9%) | 84 (71.8%) | 0.037 |
| My relative n (%) | 386 (80.6%) | 171 (84.7%) | 215 (77.6%) | 0.055 | 161 (84.7%) | 64 (87.7%) | 97 (82.9%) | 0.374 |
| My neighbor n (%) | 333 (69.5%) | 168 (83.2%) | 165 (59.6%) | < .001 | 159 (83.7%) | 64 (87.7%) | 95 (81.2%) | 0.240 |
| Other, n (%) | 59 (12.3%) | 40 (19.8%) | 19 (6.9%) | < .001 | 36 (19.0%) | 18 (24.7%) | 18 (15.4%) | 0.113 |
| No one, n (%) | 38 (7.9%) | 14 (6.9%) | 24 (8.7%) | 0.488 | 11 (5.8%) | 4 (5.5%) | 7 (6.0%) | 1.000 |
| Why would you not want to give someone CPR?a | ||||||||
| I fear I may catch a disease, n (%) | 83 (17.3%) | 34 (16.8%) | 49 (17.7%) | 0.807 | 33 (17.4%) | 7 (9.6%) | 26 (22.2%) | 0.025 |
| I do not have the skills to give CPR, n (%) | 215 (44.9%) | 45 (22.3%) | 170 (61.4%) | < .001 | 40 (21.1%) | 11 (15.1%) | 29 (24.8%) | 0.110 |
| I may not know the person, n (%) | 37 (7.7%) | 13 (6.4%) | 24 (8.7%) | 0.367 | 13 (6.8%) | 5 (6.9%) | 8 (6.8%) | 1.000 |
| I do not have the confidence to give CPR, n (%) | 70 (14.6%) | 25 (12.4%) | 45 (16.3%) | 0.237 | 21 (11.1%) | 8 (11.0%) | 13 (11.1%) | 0.974 |
| I may harm the person or make things worse, n (%) | 122 (25.5%) | 26 (12.9%) | 96 (34.7%) | < .001 | 22 (11.6%) | 10 (13.7%) | 12 (10.3%) | 0.471 |
| I do not want to give mouth to mouth, n (%) | 37 (7.7%) | 22 (11.0%) | 15 (5.4%) | 0.027 | 21 (11.1%) | 6 (8.2%) | 15 (12.8%) | 0.325 |
| I am afraid of getting sued, n (%) | 45 (9.4%) | 23 (11.4%) | 22 (7.9%) | 0.202 | 22 (11.6%) | 6 (8.2%) | 16 (13.7%) | 0.253 |
| Other reasons, n (%) | 9 (1.9%) | 6 (3.0%) | 3 (1.1%) | 0.133 | 5 (2.6%) | 2 (2.7%) | 3 (2.6%) | 1.000 |
| I will always give CPR, n (%) | 165 (34.5%) | 120 (59.4%) | 45 (16.3%) | < .001 | 112 (59.0%) | 47 (64.4%) | 65 (55.6%) | 0.229 |
| You are at home in the evening. Suddenly you hear a loud noise in the kitchen. You burst in and find a close family member lying lifeless on the floor. He or she is not breathing. You are alone in the house. What will you do?a | ||||||||
| Call for ambulance, n (%) | 297 (62.0%) | 145 (71.8%) | 152 (54.9%) | < 0.001 | 137 (72.1%) | 55 (75.3%) | 82 (70.1%) | 0.432 |
| Call for taxi, n (%) | 156 (32.6%) | 58 (28.7%) | 98 (35.4%) | 0.124 | 54 (28.4%) | 18 (24.7%) | 36 (30.8%) | 0.364 |
| Call for others to help, n (%) | 295 (61.6%) | 142 (70.3%) | 153 (55.2%) | < 0.001 | 134 (70.5%) | 54 (74.0%) | 80 (68.4%) | 0.411 |
| Give them mouth to mouth, n (%) | 243 (50.7%) | 132 (65.4%) | 111 (40.1%) | < 0.001 | 124 (65.3%) | 49 (67.1%) | 75 (64.1%) | 0.671 |
| Give them chest compressions, n (%) | 331 (69.1%) | 169 (83.7%) | 162 (58.5%) | < 0.001 | 159 (83.7%) | 66 (90.4%) | 93 (79.5%) | 0.048 |
| Do something else, n (%) | 35 (7.3%) | 25 (12.4%) | 10 (3.6%) | < 0.001 | 23 (12.1%) | 12 (16.4%) | 11 (9.4%) | 0.148 |
| I’m not sure what I will do, n (%) | 24 (5.0%) | 2 (1.0%) | 22 (7.9%) | < 0.001 | 1 (0.5%) | 1 (1.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.384 |
p values derived from chi-square tests or Fisher’s exact test
aResponse options are not mutually exclusive