The attitude of the teachers and future teachers to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) will largely determine how effective they can be as laypeople bystander CPR providers and CPR trainers of the school children and possibly the larger communities. This quasi-experimental study aimed at assessing the attitude of a group of student teachers towards cardiopulmonary Resuscitation before and after the CPR training. The cohort sample consisted of 200 level student teachers in the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Faculty of Education, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. One hundred and fifty (152) of them made up the initial cohort but only 150 of them [56(37.33%) male and 94(62.67% female)] with age range and mean of 17-28 and 21.11 + 2.40(SD), respectively completed the study with complete pre-training and post-training data, giving a response rate of 98.68%. In all, the participants showed positive attitudes before and after CPR training with significant better post-training CPR attitude. It was concluded that the student teachers could serve as a good target in having a strong and effective future school CPR training programme and in increasing the number of laypeople CPR bystanders in the communities.
