Trainers’ Attitudes towards Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Current Care Guidelines, and Training

Table 1

Factor loading of the questionnaire distributed to the participants consisting of 58 items using maximum likelihood and varimax rotation. Eigenvalues, total variance explained by factors, and Cronbach’s alphas for scales are presented in the table.

	1	2	3
Scale 1: Hesitation
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because I am not ready	.907
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because I do not want to take the lead of the situation	.893
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because the resuscitation team is on their way	.883
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because the patient might die and I would feel guilty	.849
I hesitate to perform defibrillation with the device we have available	.842
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because I fear to injure the patient	.792
I am able to perform defibrillation	−.725		.414
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because I feel the anxiety of the situation	.682
I feel that a doctor should perform defibrillation	.580
I hesitate to perform defibrillation, because I am not sure that I recognize the rhythm correctly	.557
Scale 2: Nurse’s Role
I feel that the change in nurse’s role is positive		.924
Nurse’s role is changing due to the new resuscitation guidelines		.715
The personnel should be educated to their new role during their undergraduate education		.430
All healthcare personnel should be able to perform defibrillation, if needed		.286
I feel that the first person arriving to the resuscitation scene should perform defibrillation		.177
Scale 3: Nontechnical Skills
I am competent to lead a resuscitation team	−.446		.714
I am competent to work in a resuscitation team	−.421		.794
Eigenvalues	7.680	2.109	1.295
Variance explained (%)	38.303	10.155	9.647
Cronbach’s alpha	0.918	0.570	0.802