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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Basic life support knowledge, self-reported skills and fears in Danish high school students and effect of a single 45-min training session run by junior doctors; a prospective cohort study

Baseline population n = 651

Cathedral high school

Missing (%)

Odds ratio

95% CI

p-value

Age (mean ± sd)

17.5 ± 1.2

0

   

Women n (%)

441 (67.7)

0

   

Previous BLS training n (%)

413 (63.4)

0

   

Correct answers baseline n (%)

  

Correct multiple choice answers one week after BLS training

What is a heart attack?

461 (70.8)

3.7

13.9

(6.4;30.8)

>0.001

Suddenly a person becomes consciousness and falls over. What do you do?

394 (60.5)

4.8

1.9

(1.4;2.7)

>0.001

How do you know if a person is breathing normally?

179 (27.5)

3.8

3.2

(2.2;4.6)

>0.001

Who do you call in a heart attack situation?

644 (98.9)

0.5

0.7

(0.1;4.0)

0.66

What is basic life support?

429 (65.9)

2

123.3

(17.2;884.4)

>0.001

How do you perform artificial ventilation to an unconscious person?

580 (89.1)

1.7

8.7

(3.1;24.4)

>0.001

What do you do if you are uncertain if a person is unconscious?

369 (56.9)

5.7

119.6

(16.2;884.7)

>0.001

What is a automated external defibrillator (AED)

593 (91.1)

2.7

6.2

(2.1;17.9)

>0.001

  1. Basic life support questiones item 1-8. Proportion (%) of correct answers to each question at baseline and percentage of missing answers. Odds ratio, CI and p < value for correct multiple choice answers one week after BLS training.