Barriers to performing chest compressions and/or mouth to mouth
| Chest compressions | Mouth to mouth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Willing | Unwilling | Unsure | Willing | Unwilling | Unsure |
| Person was the same sex | 90.4 | 8.0 | 1.6 | 86.8 | 9.4 | 3.8 |
| Person was elderly | 84.0 | 8.8 | 7.2 | 81.3 | 10.5 | 8.2 |
| Other witnesses | 83.5 | 9.4 | 7.1 | 81.1 | 11.0 | 7.9 |
| Complete stranger | 79.7 | 9.5 | 10.8 | 60.5 | 18.2 | 21.3 |
| Person looked dirty | 75.4 | 12.9 | 11.7 | 51.8 | 26.4 | 21.8 |
| Fear of disease | 73.7 | 13.9 | 12.5 | 44.5 | 28.8 | 26.8 |
| Person had vomited | 72.8 | 14.2 | 13.1 | 41.5 | 35.6 | 23.0 |
| Fear of legal consequences | 70.2 | 13.8 | 16.0 | 71.5 | 14.4 | 14.1 |
| Fear of not having the skills | 56.2 | 19.8 | 24.0 | 59.4 | 19.4 | 21.2 |
| Person was bleeding | 55.0 | 19.0 | 26.0 | 38.8 | 27.2 | 34.0 |