Impact of Age and Sex on Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Knowledge

Abstract

Objective: To assess the impact of age and sex on the bystander CPR Knowledge in a group of Nigerian student teachers. Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study design was used with the cohort made up of forty one (41) male and forty one (41) female undergraduate students of Physical and Health Education with 40 participants in the 17-20 years age group and 42 participants belonging to the 21-28 years of age bracket were randomly selected from the larger main cohort for analysis of possible impact of age and sex on their pre-training and post-training cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge. In addition to the descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the null hypotheses generated with significance level set at P < 0.05. Results: No significant age impact was found on the pre-training and post-training CPR knowledge of the student teachers (P > 0.05). However, there was a positive impact of male gender on post-training CPR knowledge of the participants (P <0.001). Conclusion: Although age could not impact significantly on the cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge of the participants, male gender significantly impacted on the post-training cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge of the cohort.

Demographic Factors and Bystander CPR in Nigerian Athletes

“…According to Dobbie et al [7], "the older a person was, the less likely they were to be CPR trained, show willingness to be CPR trained or be confident to administer bystander CPR with or without instruction from an emergency call handler". None of the earlier Nigerian studies on bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in relation to age and gender [8][9][10][11][12] did involve athletes. Some studies globally on bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation have shown clearly the associated increased risk of sudden cardiac arrests among athletes [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”