18 Assessing the links between first aid training and community resilience It was not possible to organise focus groups with 2.2.1 Sample people who received workplace training within the available timeframe due to not being able to The survey sample comprised of two groups: access the data. an intervention group who had received first aid training from the British Red Cross between April and September 2010 (referred to herein as 2.2 survey ‘Trained’), and a control group, for comparison, from those who were booked on to receive first The survey included questions on respondent aid training in 2011. All, therefore, had either demographics, features of the first aid training received, or were booked to receive, first aid they received (or will receive) from the British Red training provided by the British Red Cross – Cross, individual resilience, community resilience, including Red Cross Training, community-based and willingness and confidence to provide first aid (CBFA – both public and in groups), first aid. and schools. The first stage of focus groups helped to test out the questionnaire and make amendments. 2.3 measuring our concepts In addition, 83 participants formed a pilot for the questionnaire. 2.3.1 ‘Community’ There were two different versions of the Respondents were given our definition of questionnaire. The first was for those people community (see section 1.1), and asked to think who had already received first aid training. The of a community that they belonged to and told second was for those who had not yet received that the subsequent questions about community their training, and did not include the questions in the questionnaire referred to their chosen from the first version that related specifically to community. having had first aid training.