Background: Few investigations concerns about why the local health-care providers participate in mass Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training in developing countries. This study aimed to survey knowledge and attitudes of local health-care providers who candidate to be mass CPR instructors in China. Method: This was a retrospective survey study. Data were obtained from candidates being mass CPR instructors (n=496) between March 2018 and December 2018. Whether they belonged to the emergency group or non-emergency group was based on their service department. The outcome was passed in the final examination. Binary logistic regression was performed to analysis. Result: Passed rate in emergency group is higher than non-emergency groups (90.7%, 175/194 vs. 83.8%, 253/302, P=0.042).Consisting with higher frequency on receiving CPR training, emergency staffers were richer in dealing emergency situation such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (58.2%), In-of-hospital cardiac arrest (95.4%), use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) (96.4%), traumatic hemorrhage (83.5%), suffocation(74.2%), syncope (53.1%) and epilepsy (79.4%). In despite, younger group (OR: 0.957, 95% CI [0.925-0.990]), previous training on AED (OR: 2.698, 95% CI [1.441-5.050]) and pecuniary motivation (OR: 3.176, 95%CI [1.231-8.191])independently affects being mass CPR instructors among health-care provider.
Conclusion:Because of better knowledge and skill, emergency staffers have ability to lead local health-care providers to build a team of mass CPR instructors. Our findings can be used to conduct public emergency education for health policy design in China.