Assessment of attitude, level of knowledge, and awareness of blood donation in a sample of Saudi community: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge and Barriers About Blood Donation and Associated Factors in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review

“…The general population lacked knowledge and had negative attitudes and misconceptions toward blood donation [10,[12][13][14][21][22][23]. Another systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by Getie et al were consistent with our results and reported that there is a lack of sufficient information about blood donation in Ethiopia, as evidenced by the pooled prevalence of good knowledge about blood donation being 56.57% (95% CI 50.30 to 62.84) [27].…”

“…Our results included 17 studies with a total of 9,212 participants; 4,806 (52.2%) were males. All of the included articles were cross-sectional studies [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Blood donation and its significance in society and the healthcare system are topics that the Saudi public accepts as having acceptable knowledge and favorable opinions.…”

“…Regarding attitude, 74.2% of respondents strongly agreed that more people should be aware of the value of blood donation. Moderate Almulhim et al, 2020 [14] The respondents had poor general knowledge and a positive attitude toward giving. Most respondents thought incentives were unnecessary but nevertheless welcomed them.…”

“…Lack of knowledge, negative attitudes, and misconceptions were predominant among the Saudi public population [10,[12][13][14][21][22][23]. Participants reported that the distance to the donation site, the difficulty with transportation, the time commitment, getting a brief break from work or the office, or taking time off from home, as well as various fears, mistrust, a lack of information, and not being approached by anyone to donate were the reasons for the negative attitudes towards blood donation.…”