Finaba Berete, Lydia Gisle, Stefaan Demarest, Rana Charafeddine, Olivier Bruyère, Stephan Van den Broucke, Johan Van der Heyden
Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health related outcomes in the Belgian adult population?
BMC public health
background victims gender known factor influences willingness adult bystanders perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation cpr outofhospital cardiac arrest ohca occurs study aims identify whether gender characteristics ohca victims also relevant schoolchildren key target group cpr trainings worldwide methods prospective educative intervention study performed schoolchildren 5th7th grade schoolchildrens willingness perform cpr assessed means questionnaires t0 t1 standardized cpr training participants asked determined perform cpr male female ohca victims 5point likert scale determined determined data analysis performed according gender characteristics schoolchildren results overall 342 schoolchildren aged 1015 years included 166 male mg 176 female fg schoolchildren served comparison group t0 t1 intervention females showed significantly higher general willingness perform cpr males t0 971 vs 890 p 0003 t1 957 vs 989 p 0038 general willingness perform cpr training stronger increase males 80 vs 23 p 0017 case ohca victim female male schoolchildren less willing perform cpr females baseline mg n 101608 vs fg n 147845 p 0001 training mg n 97584 vs fg n 138793 p 0001 t1 cpr willingness female victims improved males mg n 36217 vs fg n 19109 p 0006 conclusions gender characteristics ohca victims well schoolchildren relevant impact willingness perform cpr training concepts effectively motivate male schoolchildren reduce preexisting inhibitions especially towards female ohca patients trial registration study registered german clinical trials register registration number drks00017707 2 august 2019