Blood donation knowledge and attitudes among undergraduate health science students: A cross-sectional study

Papagiannis, Dimitrios; Rachiotis, George; Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K.; Anyfantakis, Dimitrios; Douvlataniotis, Karolos; Zilidis, Christos; Markaki, Adelais; Hadjichristodoulou, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.transci.2015.11.001

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“…These results represent a starting point for reflection on the particular link between knowledge of donation practices and transformation of such practices into donation behaviour. In particular, a greater knowledge does not correspond to a greater expression of behaviour, in agreement with what emerged from the literature on students of health professions (Ahmed et al, ; Amatya et al, ; Mamatya et al, ; Mane & Kolte, ; Nwabueze et al, ; Papagiannis et al, ; Wiwanitkit, ). A possible explanation is that NSs consider the hospital as a “learning context” in which they see themselves in their student or future professional “role” rather than in someone engaged in a volunteering activity.…”

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“…A possible explanation for this result may be that, despite students’ theoretical knowledge acquisition about the “donation” as a process, during their years of education, they are not aware of the importance of such practice. There may therefore be a clear lack of passage to donor action, as evidenced by literature on this topic (Ahmed et al, ; Amatya et al, ; Mamatya et al, ; Mane & Kolte, ; Nwabueze et al, ; Papagiannis et al, ; Sabu et al, ), which needs further investigations to better understand its real motivations.…”

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“…Nonetheless, NSs are those who declare to have donated blood more than once, probably with the idea of "testing" the ex- 2014; Amatya et al, 2013;Mamatya et al, 2012;Mane & Kolte, 2014;Nwabueze et al, 2014;Papagiannis et al, 2015;Wiwanitkit, 2002). A possible explanation is that NSs consider the hospital as a "learning context" in which they see themselves in their student or future professional "role" rather than in someone engaged in a volunteering activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some recent researches on this subject focused their attention on medical or healthcare students as a population potentially more proposed to start a donor career; considering that for study and/or for work reasons, they often attend hospitals and places where BD is common practice. The results of these surveys, however, have highlighted how good knowledge of donation does not always translate into donor action (Ahmed, Zafar, Khan, Anjum, & Siddique, ; Amatya, Gorkhali, Mahotra, Prajapati, & Yadav, ; Mamatya, Prajapati, & Yadav, ; Mane & Kolte, ; Nwabueze et al, ; Papagiannis et al, ; Sabu, Remya, Binu, & Vivek, ). Healthcare students, however, donate more frequently than students of other graduate courses (Mamatya et al, ; Sabu et al, ), although the total percentage remains well below the average of other age groups.…”

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Nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of blood donation: A multicentre study

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To investigate factors involved in the blood donation (BD) in a population of Italian nursing students (NSs). Background Young people are still numerically limited among potential blood donors. Recent research on this topic has underlined the need to promote recruitment programmes and focused advertising campaigns to specific targeted population. Design Cross‐sectional study. The STROBE checklist was used to grant adequate and complete reporting of research. Methods The study was carried out in five Italian Universities, and a structured, 22‐item questionnaire was distributed to 532 NSs (mean age = 24.64, SD = 7.41, min = 19; max = 55; population, female = 80.8% of total) to explore propensity, obstacles, knowledge of BD and to assess associations between variables. Descriptive (frequency, mean and SD) and inferential (χ2) statistics were conducted. Results The overall level of knowledge among NSs donors is high, when compared with non‐donors (p < 0.05); the propensity for donation is acceptable (34.8% of the total are donors; mean = 3.17 donation). The obstacles perceived by participants are “practical” (20% and 22.8% think they do not have enough time to donate or are unsuitable because of lifestyle reasons; respectively). A relevant aspect regards the NSs’ perceived role as future healthcare professionals to be responsible to educate and influence potential donors (81.5%). Conclusions Specifically tailored BD campaigning should be implemented to sensitise University students. NSs could become effective motivators among students of different Universities or faculties. Thanks to their role and capability to put themselves in the peer group. NSs could contribute to the promotion of this selfless practice and to the development of a mature, responsible civic attitude. Relevance to clinical practice Nursing educators should play a pivotal role in developing teaching methods to promote BD among NSs.

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“…Males dominated in blood donation inseveral studies [9,[16][17][18][19] including ours. In Saudi Arabia, the rate of blood donation in males was five times as common as in females (66% vs. 13.3%, respectively, p<0.001) [9].…”

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A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Barriers Regarding Blood Donation among General Population in Kuwait

Al-Haqqan¹,

Husain²,

Al-Kandari³

et al. 2016

Int J Community Fam Med

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Background: Public awareness regarding blood donation during life and after death is poor in many developing and developed countries. The prevalence of blood donation varies according to the demographics of the people. The objectives of this study were to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice, and barriers regarding blood donation among the general population in Kuwait. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 915 people was conducted between March and April 2016. Data were collected by using a survey questionnaire among the general people working in five randomly selected ministries including the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Social Affair. An ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Faculty of Medicine in Kuwait University and from the ministries. Results: Overall, about 37% the study population ever donated blood. The proportion of life-time donors was significantly higher among males than females (57.9% vs. 25.2%, respectively, p< 0.001). However, the knowledge scores about blood donation were significantly higher among females (p= 0.035). Both knowledge scores and positive scores of attitude increased with increasing age and with higher educational levels. Of the barriers, women had significantly more fear of pain (p<0.001) and fear of seeing blood (p= 0.002) compared to men. In multivariate analysis, male gender, middle and older age, knowledge score, fear of getting new infection, and fear of anemia remained significant predictors of blood donation after controlling for the confounders. Conclusion:The study showed a low rate of blood donation in Kuwait. More community outreach programs such as blood donation campaigns should be undertaken to improve the situation, and to alleviate people's perception about the barriers.

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Explanatory factors of blood‐giving in young adults: An extended theory of planned behaviour model

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Alves

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2020

J of Philanthropy and Mktg

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Although much research has been carried out to understand blood donators' behaviour, donation behaviour falls short of what is needed, especially among young people. This study has the general objective of extending the theory of planned behaviour (TBP) model beyond previous studies. It gathers the contributions of previous studies in a more complete model and adds a new factor, pro‐social behaviour, to try to improve the TPB model's explanatory capacity among young people. To do so, we carried out a transversal quantitative study with a sample of 200 students who took part in a questionnaire survey. The results indicate that self‐efficacy is the construct with the greatest influence on the intention to donate blood, followed by attitude, with moral norm also having a high indirect influence through attitude. Pro‐social behaviour was shown not to influence the intention to give blood but to have an indirect influence through attitude. The same happens with the descriptive norm.

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Blood donation knowledge and attitudes among undergraduate health science students: A cross-sectional study

Cited by 33 publications

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Nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of blood donation: A multicentre study

Nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of blood donation: A multicentre study

A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Barriers Regarding Blood Donation among General Population in Kuwait

Explanatory factors of blood‐giving in young adults: An extended theory of planned behaviour model

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