Design Mobile Application for Blood Donation System

Hummady, Muna M.

doi:10.1109/icca56443.2022.10039544

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“…Once a campaign has been scheduled, the app contacts all the registered donors via text messages. In 2018, Sih Uy 26 developed a mobile app for disseminating information regarding blood donation in the Philippines using the data of Red Cross Philippines. The mobile app is also updated with news, announcements, and promotional materials in order to encourage blood donation among the population.…”

Section: Systematic Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile applications for encouraging blood donation: A systematic review and case study

Li,

Valero,

Keyser

et al. 2023

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Objectives Given the current shortage of blood donors in the USA, researchers have tried to identify different strategies to attract more young people and spread the voice of donors’ needs. Methods A systematic literature review is conducted to investigate the current mobile applications used to track, attract, and retain donors. We also provide some preliminary results of a pilot study, based on a cross-sectional survey of 952 participants (aged 18 to 39), about the willingness of donors to use mobile apps as tools for encouraging blood donation. The data is collected using a 20-item questionnaire, which includes four constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior to assess the respondents’ willingness to donate blood. A range of statistical techniques, including univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, and structural equation modeling, were utilized to analyze the collected data. Results The 37 research articles, selected after applying several exclusion criteria, are classified into five main categories. The majority of the research (44.1%) is about using mobile apps to find blood donors and blood centers, followed by publications on using mobile apps to encourage blood donation (26.4%) and to recruit blood donors (14.7%). The remaining studies are about retaining blood donors (8.8%) and using mobile apps for scheduling donations (5.8%). Our pilot case study suggests that 73% of participants have favorable perceptions toward a blood donation mobile app. Conclusions Many efforts have been undertaken to employ mobile apps to make blood donations more convenient and create communities around donating blood. The case study findings suggest a high level of readiness of using mobile apps for blood donation among the younger generation.

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Section: Systematic Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%