A study on knowledge, attitude, and practice on blood donation among health professional students in Anand: Gujarat

Knowledge about Blood Donation among Undergraduate Students of GMC, Patiala, Punjab, India

“…This result strongly recommends that frequent awareness should be given to the students on blood components i.e, separation of one unit of blood can save up to 4 lives. [21] The study showed that most of participants (88.9%) had never donated blood so far, which is almost comparable with studies among health professional students by Manikandan et al [15] (89.25%), Sunetra Sarma et al [24] (92%), and Desai et al [16] (78.7%). But it was different among students in studies conducted by Kowsalya et al [26] (62.6%), Giri et al [14] (52.5%), and Nwogen et al [27] (22%).…”

A study of knowledge, attitude and practice of voluntary blood donation among interns of a municipal medical college

“…Higher proportion of students reported to have positive attitude in a study conducted by Ponnari et al in south India. 15 But, lower proportion of the study sample reported positive attitude in the studies conducted by Chopra D et al, Manikandan et al and Desai K et al 8,9,13 This difference is because of the fact that our study only has focused on the subset of young doctors i.e. interns.…”

“…A study conducted by Desai et al in Gujarat reported a higher proportion of medical professionals not donating blood in the past (78.7%). 9 Some studies conducted by Salaudeen AG et al (15.3%) and Uma et al (22.1%) reported lower proportions of the people who had donated blood in the past. 16,18 The practice of blood donation was significantly higher among males when compared to females in our study.…”

“…The commonest reason for not donating blood was being medically unfit for blood donation (69.0%), fear of weakness (10.3%), No request for blood (10.3%), and not getting permission from parents(6.90%) and fear of pain (3.5%). 7,9,13,15 This difference in knowledge is varied because the level of educational attainment of the different types of health professionals the above studies have included.…”

“…Various studies have been conducted in general population and health professionals, but very few studies are conducted on young doctors. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] So, this study was conducted to determine the knowledge and attitude about donor eligibility, safety and prevailing practices pertaining to voluntary blood donation among interns.…”