A study on knowledge, attitude and practice on blood donation among medical students in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ponmari, Jeya S.; Sivaraman, Malar; Balasubramanian, Aruna

doi:10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20161523

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“…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.…”

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“…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.…”

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“…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.…”

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

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Inspiration among and participation of medical students is essential to make the “voluntary blood donation” movement a success. By assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of blood donation, donor mobilization and retention strategies can be designed and optimally modified. In this study, knowledge about voluntary blood donation in medical interns was undertaken because by the end of their MBBS course they are supposed to have understood the importance of blood donation and become capable motivators for blood donation amongst potential donors in public.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 111 interns of Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai using universal sampling method. Self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data.Results: Mean age of interns was 23.13 years with standard deviation of 0.832 of which girls comprised 48.6%. Forty seven point seven percent interns had donated blood before. The correct knowledge was prevalent in 45.0% only. Practice of blood donation amongst interns had male propensity and positive correlation with gender difference (p value 0.001). Most interns (79.3%) donated for moral satisfaction and social responsibility The commonest reason in the non-donors, for not donating was being medically unfit for donating (69.0%).Conclusions: Almost half (55.0%) of the medical students under study didn’t have adequate knowledge on blood safety and donor eligibility. Majority of them intended to donate blood in future however, a very few had ever actually donated blood. Increased awareness about blood donation among medical interns is expected to have amplified effects in the society, as an aware and motivated doctor can motivate and mobilize many others for voluntary non-remunerated blood donation and thus blood safety.

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

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“…4 Achieving 100% voluntary blood donors is a big challenge for every blood bank, but this can be easily achieved, if 1% of a nation practice voluntary blood donation. 5 However misconceptions, poor knowledge about blood donation practices can impact the attitude of the blood donor. 6 Hence there is a need to assess and improve the knowledge of the blood donors.…”

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Study of Awareness about Blood Donation among Blood Donors in a Tertiary Care Hospital

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Bhuvana

Anandabaskar

2020

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Background: Various factors determine the donor's frequency of blood donation like lack of awareness, life style barriers and their present and past experience with blood donation. Aim and Objectives:To study the awareness about blood donation among the blood donors of a tertiary care hospital and to find out the existing information gap. Materials and Methods:This was a cross sectional study conducted in the blood bank of a tertiary care hospital in which the blood donors, after obtaining informed consent, were administered a questionnaire to assess their awareness about blood donation. The collected data was entered in an excel sheet and it was analyzed.Result: Out of the 100 blood donors included in the study, majority of them were in the age group 21-30 years. Most (94%) of the donors were aware of their blood group and had the knowledge that they can continue their routine work after blood donation (92%). However, only (52%) were aware of the rejection criteria and only (59%) had awareness about age criteria for blood donation and required weight and hemoglobin for blood donation. (67%) of the donors had awareness about blood donation from the media and friends, while others gained it from their previous blood donation experience. Conclusion:Training programs for health professionals and awareness programs in mass media can spread the knowledge of blood donation among the community especially in the younger generation and improve their attitude and sustain their practice of regular blood donor.

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“…3,4 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1% of the population is generally the minimum needed to meet the country's most basic requirements for blood, hence the estimated blood requirement of South East Asia is about 18 million units per year, and the annual collection is about 9.4million units, leaving a gap of 6million units. [5][6][7] Every year, our country requires about four crore units of blood, out of which only inadequate 40 Lakh units of blood are available. A country can meet all its requirement for blood if only one percentage to three percentage of its eligible population donate blood.…”

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A cross sectional study to assess knowledge, attitude and practice regarding voluntary blood donation among medical students of Jabalpur, central India

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Thakur

Saklecha

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Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Blood transfusion is a crucial and an essential part of any nation’s health care delivery system for a lifesaving Interventions. Positive attitude towards blood donation practices among the younger generation would play a crucial role in improving health care structure. Objectives of the study were to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice towards blood donation and its associated factors among undergraduate medical students. Methods: It was a descriptive cross sectional study conducted on the 322 under graduate medical students of different professional years during September to December 2016 at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose medical college Jabalpur (M.P.). A pretested, self administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect data on knowledge, attitude and practice regarding voluntary blood donation. Scores for three domains i.e. knowledge, attitude, practice was calculated. Data on Socio demographic details and reason behind non donation of blood were also collected. Results: On correlation between the scores of attitude and practice with knowledge. Attitude has a positive statistically significant correlation with the increase in knowledge and vice versa. On the other hand Increase in attitude shows a negative statistically significant correlation with practice and vice versa. Students belongs to >20 years of age group has significantly more knowledge and good attitude regarding blood donation (p<0.001). Female students when compared with male have more knowledge and good attitude regarding blood donation. But in case of practice of blood donation female significantly lag behind male students (p<0.001). Conclusions: Opportunities for blood donations should be created regularly by conducting blood donation camps this will not only increase the Sense of social responsibility among medical students through positive attitude but will also narrowed down the gap between the demand and the supply of the country.

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A study on knowledge, attitude and practice on blood donation among medical students in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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

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

Study of Awareness about Blood Donation among Blood Donors in a Tertiary Care Hospital

A cross sectional study to assess knowledge, attitude and practice regarding voluntary blood donation among medical students of Jabalpur, central India

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