title: Factors influencing Chinese university students' willingness to performing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Low rates of bystander-initiated CPR are a major obstacle to improved survival rates, and the aim of this study is to elucidate the factors associated with university students' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires were distributed to 18 universities across three metropolises in China. One question asking for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR was set as the dependent variable, and the logistic regression models were used to extract independent factors for respondents' attitudes toward performing bystander CPR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  2934 questionnaires were completed, with a response rate of 81.5%. Results suggested that predictors of willingness to perform bystander CPR were: previous experience of performing bystander CPR, higher self-perceived ability to perform bystander CPR properly after instruction, medicine and law discipline, male gender, not being the single child of their parents, higher participation in university societies, being used to taking decisive action immediately, less self-perceived life stress and higher self-perceived knowledge level of CPR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Persons having previous experience of performing bystander CPR and those who thought they would have the ability to perform bystander CPR properly are predominantly associated with willingness to perform bystander CPR. Psychological and cultural factors need further study.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, TEDA Hospital, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Cui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Nursing School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China. Electronic address: jinyinghui0301@163.com.
authors.forename: Ying-Hui
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiration and Critical Care Medicine, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Tong
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Department, No. 2 Subsidiary Hospital of No. 4 Military Medical University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China.
authors.forename: Wen-Jing
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: The Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Yun-Yun
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Nursing School, Peking University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D024201:Bystander Effect; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration
keywords: Attitudes; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Influencing factors; University students