title: Lay CPR trainees: retraining, confidence and willingness to attempt resuscitation 4 years after training.
abstract: Two independent samples of 800 lay CPR trainees from an original cohort of 7584 were surveyed postally 4 years after training. Only 2% of respondents had used CPR, but 92 had used other aspects of their life support training. Those who had retrained were more confident than those who had not and 89% of those who had not retrained were willing to do so. More than 80% expressed willingness to perform full CPR on casualties who were unknown to them, but this fell to 40% where facial blood was present and 48% where the victim was a gay man.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Applied Public Health Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Lansdowne Hospital, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Donnelly
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Assar
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires