The Effect of the Duration of Basic Life Support Training on the Learners’ Cardiopulmonary and Automated External Defibrillator Skills

Table 2

The characteristics of the 485 participants.

Characteristics	Program level				value
	1 ()	2 ()	3 ()	4 ()
Age (y/o)	21.0; (19.0–22.0)	21.0; (19.0–22.0)	20.0; (19.0–21.0)	20.0; (19.0–22.0)	0.003
Sex (male)	55 (45.5%)	49 (41.2%)	52 (41.9%)	46 (38.0%)	0.707
Height (cm)	168.0; (162.5–175.0)	168.0; (162.0–174.0)	169.0; (163.0–174.8)	168.0; (163.0–175.0)	0.764
Weight (kg)	59.0; (53.0–70.0)	56.0; (51.0–68.0)	57.0; (52.0–66.8)	57.0; (51.0–68.0)	0.616
Body mass index (kg/m^2)	20.8; (19.6–23.2)	20.4; (19.2–22.2)	20.2; (19.2–22.1)	20.5; (19.3–22.1)	0.205
Prior BLS training (yes)	48 (39.7%)	34 (28.6%)	46 (37.1%)	48 (39.7%)	0.231

All values were calculated using the Kruskal-Wallis method and expressed as median (interquartile range).
Chi-square test (, %).
BLS: basic life support.