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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Assessment of laypersons’ paediatric basic life support and foreign body airway obstruction management skills: a validity study

 

Untrained laypersons

Trained laypersons

Lifeguards

Participants (n)

10

10

13

Sex, female

10 (100)

10 (100)

9 (69)

Age, years

40 (34–46)

49 (35–53)

20 (20–21)

Working with children, Years

10 (3–12)

11 (7–25)

No prior training

3 (30)

3 (30)

Years since training

2–5

1 (10)

3 (30)

> 5

6 (60)

4 (40)

  1. Continuous data are reported as median (Interquartile range). Dichotomous data reported as n (%)