Abstract
Background Few investigations concern about why the local health-care providers participate in mass Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training in developing countries. This study aimed to survey knowledge and attitudes of local health-care providers who candidate to be mass CPR instructors in China. Method This was a retrospective survey study. Data were obtained from candidates being mass CPR instructors (n=496) between March 2018 and December 2018. Whether they belonged to the emergency group or non-emergency group was based on their service department. The outcome was passed in the final examination. Binary logistic regression was performed to analysis. Result Passed rate in emergency group is higher than non-emergency groups (90.7%, 175/194 vs. 83.8%, 253/302, P =0.042).Consisting with higher frequency on receiving CPR training, emergency staffers were richer in dealing emergency situation such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (58.2%), In-of-hospital cardiac arrest (95.4%), use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) (96.4%), traumatic hemorrhage (83.5%), suffocation(74.2%), syncope (53.1%) and epilepsy (79.4%). In despite, younger group ( OR : 0.957, 95% CI [0.925-0.990]), previous training of AED ( OR : 2.698, 95% CI [1.441-5.050]) and pecuniary motivation (OR : 3.176, 95% CI [1.231-8.191]) independently affects being mass CPR instructors among health-care provider. Conclusion Because of better knowledge and skill, emergency staffers have ability to lead local health-care providers to build a team of mass CPR instructors. Our findings can be used to conduct public emergency education for health policy design in China.