Awareness About Hazards of Blood Transfusion Among the Recipients in a Selected Hospital in Dhaka City

Abstract

This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital from September 2007 to December 2007 among the admitted patients, who received blood at that time, to assess the extent of awareness about hazards of blood wansfitsion among the blood recipients to find out the knowledge about blood grouping, cross matching. screening. quality of blood. fitness of blood donors. hazards due to blood transfission and sods demographic condition of the blood recipients. A total of 202 blood recipients were selected purposively. of them 75 were male and 127 were female. The mean age of the respondents were 41.6 years. of them mean or of the male was 46.3 years and the mean age of ihe fronale was 39.3 years. More than 93% of the respondents had some !net of education and 6.9% were illiterate; 41.6% of the respondents were house wife. 31.2% were service holder. 8.9% were business man and only 2.5% were of lower hiconte group. About the type of blood examination needed before rmisfitsion. 82.2% were aware about blood gimping. 51.5% about cross matching, 6.4% about Rh typing, 5.4% about screening and 17.8% had no idea. Regarding blood transfusion related diseases. 80.2% were aware about hepatitis 13. 60.9% about AIDS. 32.7% about syphilis, 22.3% about malaria and 20.8% of the respondents were totally unaware shoal the transfission related diseases. About reaction due to blood smut fission, 174 (86.1%) hod some idea but 28 (13.9%) were totally unaware about say reaction. Of the respondents, 196 (97%) preferred blood front unpaid vohnumv donors. friends and relatives, and only six (3%9 preferred professional donors. Only 4.5% of the respondents had idea about screening of blood before transficsion.