Determinants of the intention to participate in a programme of plasma donation for fractionation among men who have sex with men

Abstract

ConclusionOur analyses show that intention to donate plasma within the proposed programme is associated with personal, social and structural factors, but more strongly predicted by factors related to the theory of planned behaviour. Our results also highlight the importance of involving MSM; community acceptability of the plasma donation programme would probably be higher if MSM felt respected and party to the decisions.

Evolving the gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men time‐based deferral to sexual risk screening for all donors: The contribution of Canadian research programmes

“…The programmes also supported social science projects that examined the views of diverse populations regarding screening criteria [45][46][47]58], including an emphasis on understanding the views of blood donation and acceptability of alternative donor screening approaches among gbMSM [48][49][50][51][52]54]. In some projects, existing community-based research efforts were leveraged [48,[50][51][52].…”

“…Internationally, research funded by the programme was cited in the FAIR report that recommended a more individual screening approach in the United Kingdom [62]. Furthermore, research findings supported [46,49,50,54,58] gbMSM [48][49][50][51][52]54] Donors [45][46][47]60] Donor centre staff [58] Mixed methods [48] Quantitative [45, [55,58] Donors [2,3,[55][56][57] gbMSM [53,56] Quantitative [2] Qualitative [3, 55- [46,61] Donors [46,59,60] gbMSM [61] Donor centre staff [61] Mixed methods [59,60] Quantitative [46] Qualitative [61] -Less than 4% of donors indicated that they had anal sex in the previous 3 months [60] -Applying the FAIR criteria would result in donation loss of 1.0% (95% CI: 0.8, 1.1). Donation loss could be partly compensated by newly eligible gbMSM [59] -Discomfort with sexual risk questions can be alleviated by providing explanations for the questions, warning about the questions and using a selfadministered questionnaire [46] Abbreviations: gbMSM, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men; MSM, men who have sex with men.…”

“…Peer-reviewed publication outputs from the programmes are listed and their research findings are summarized in Table 3. These findings [2,3,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] together with stakeholder engagement and international research informed several recent changes to Canadian donor eligibility criteria and screening (Table 4).…”

Evolving deferral criteria for blood donation in France: Plasma donation by men who have sex with men

“…A number of reasons may have contributed to the low donor accrual, including insufficient knowledge among potential candidates, limited access to apheresis donation which was, and remains, often unavailable, notably in mobile collections sites, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis as well as low attractiveness of this type of donation, especially for new donors who have not previously donated whole blood. Furthermore, while plasma donation by otherwise deferred MSM could be viewed as a way forward regarding deferral criteria that are viewed as disproportionate and discriminatory, such a MSMspecific donation pathway could still be perceived as stigmatizing [15].…”

Navigating imperfect policies to donate plasma: Survey on plasma donation and a pilot plasma donation program among men who have sex with men in Canada

“…Viellette-Bourbeau et al examined predictors of intention to participate in a gbMSM plasma donation program. 9 Attitude toward donation in the program was the strongest predictor and highlighted the importance of community acceptability of the program. In addition to acceptability, there remains a need to understand the barriers and enablers of plasma donation more generally, given the rapidly evolving policy landscape.…”