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Attitudes to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use : a survey of UK adults in 2017
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Hawkes, Claire, Brown, Terry, Booth, Scott J., Fothergill, Rachael, Siriwardena, Niroshan, Zakaria, Sana, Askew, Sara, Williams, Julia, Rees, Nigel, Ji, Chen and Perkins, Gavin D. (2019) Attitudes to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use : a survey of UK adults in 2017. Journal of the American Heart Association, 8 (7). doi:10.1161/JAHA.117.008267
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.008267
Abstract
Background
Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and publically accessible defibrillator (PAD) use can save lives of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. Little is known about proportions of UK adults trained in either, their characteristics, willingness to act if witnessing an OHCA or the public’s knowledge regarding where their nearest PAD is located.
Methods and Results
An online survey was administered by YouGov(UK) to a non-probabilistic purposive sample of UK adults achieving 2084 participants, from a panel and matched to be representative of the population. We used descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression modelling for analysis. Almost 54% were women, 60% were under 55 years old and 19% had witnessed an OHCA. Proportions ever trained were: 60% in chest-compression only resuscitation (CO-CPR), 59% in CPR, 19.4% in PAD use. Most with any resuscitation technique training had trained at work (54.7%). Compared to people not trained, those trained in PAD use said they were more likely to use one (OR=2.61) and, those trained in CPR or CO-CPR, more likely to perform it (OR=5.39). Characteristics associated with being trained in any resuscitation technique included youth, being female, from a higher social grade and being in full time work.
Conclusions
In the UK, training makes a difference in people’s willingness to act in the event of a cardiac arrest. While there is considerable room to increase the proportion of the general population trained in CPR, consideration should be also given to encourage training in PAD use and targeting training for those who are older or from lower social grades.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Clinical Trials Unit | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | CPR (First aid), Defibrillators | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the American Heart Association | |||||||||
| Publisher: | American Heart Association | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 2047-9980 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 2 April 2019 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | |||||||||
| Number: | 7 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1161/JAHA.117.008267 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2019 The Authors. | |||||||||
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