An exploration of attitudes toward bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in university students in Tianjin, China: A survey.

摘要: Abstract Background Despite the importance of early effective bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to improve survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, attitudes toward performing, learning and disseminating CPR in university students China are still unclear. Methods Aims To assess regarding China. Results The results indicated that except for scenario where victim was their own family member or close friend, all other scenarios showed a relatively dismally lower rate positive response. Besides, it greater willingness perform chest compression only (CC) than with mouth-to-mouth ventilation (CCMV) (P  Conclusions technique, victim's status, respondent's specialty gender affected respondents performing CPR. top four reasons being unwilling were lack confidence, fear legal disputes, disease transmission feeling embarrassed. However, key reason differed different specialties particularly ‘feeling embarrassment' might be cultural phenomenon. by specialty.