Development, validation and translation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training and placement bilingual questionnaire.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:This paper describes the development and translation of a questionnaire purported to measure (1) the perception of the placement strategy of automated external defibrillator, (2) the perception on the importance of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator (3) the perception on the confidence and willingness to apply these two lifesaving interventions as well as (4) the fears and concerns in applying these two interventions. For construct validation, exploratory factor analysis was performed using principal axis factoring and promax oblique rotation and confirmatory factor analysis performed using partial least square. RESULTS:Five factors with eigenvalue > 1 were identified. Pattern matrix analysis showed that all items were loaded into the fa

SUBMITTER: Chew KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature