Impact of basic life-support training on the attitudes of health-care workers toward cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation

Table 4 Linear regression analysis of BLS concern and attitude scores with independent variables

	β	S.E.	t value	Adjusted p value
BLS training (post-BLS vs. pre-BLS)
Attitude	5.15	1.18	4.38	<0.001*
Concern	4.87	2.19	2.22	0.027*
Sex (male vs. female)
Attitude	1.54	1.55	0.99	0.320
Concern	2.96	2.89	1.02	0.308
Education (higher vs. lower)
Attitude	1.71	1.69	1.01	0.315
Concern	−1.72	3.18	−0.54	0.590
Job category (physicians vs. nurses)
Attitude	−0.88	1.68	−0.52	0.601
Concern	−10.45	3.11	−3.37	0.001*
Exposure to cardiac arrest cases (yes vs. no)
Attitude	3.44	1.45	2.38	0.018*
Concern	−3.74	2.70	−1.38	0.167
Previous BLS training (n)
Attitude	2.10	0.79	2.64	0.008*
Concern	−3.99	1.48	−2.69	0.007*
Work experience (years)
Attitude	−0.05	0.07	−0.64	0.520
Concern	−0.29	0.14	−2.19	0.029*
Concern (mean % score)
Attitude	−0.09	0.02	−4.01	<0.001*
Constant	70.11	2.73	24.66
Constant	53.05	4.56	11.63

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