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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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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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
2 April 2019Published
28 March 2019Available
25 January 2019Accepted
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.
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDBritish Heart Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000274
UNSPECIFIEDResuscitation Council (UK)http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012358

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