Factors associated with positive attitude towards blood donation among medical students

Gazibara, Tatjana; Kovačević, Nikolina; Marić, Gorica; Kurtagic, Ilma; Nurković, Selmina; Kisić-Tepavčević, Darija; Pekmezović, Tatjana

doi:10.1016/j.transci.2015.07.007

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“…In our setting, the proportion of who had ever donated blood is lower than the one reported in other similar settings where the proportion of blood donors among undergraduate students varied between 18% and 41% [19,[21][22][23][24]26,27]. Such a finding highlights the need of planning strategies in order to motivate undergraduate students in our setting towards blood donation.…”

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“…Several studies have been published mentioning the factors that determine the intention to donate blood among undergraduate students [19,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. The knowledge about such factors will allow us to motivate Bold values mean that the p value is lower than 0.05. young, healthy and informed people to donate blood.…”

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“…Undergraduate students are a preferred target for blood donation campaigns, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group [19,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. The Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation (IPST) has been organizing blood harvesting campaigns in Higher Education Institutions, enrolling undergraduate students.…”

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Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students

Gomes

Nogueira

Antão

et al. 2019

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

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A B S T R A C TBackground: Undergraduate students are a target for blood donation, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group. Aim: To understand motivations and attitudes underpinning the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study enrolling undergraduate students of a College of Health Sciences in the Northeast of Portugal (January/February, 2017). Data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire covering questions about motivations (n = 8) and attitudes (n = 5) towards the act of blood donation. Participants were classified by donation status into donors (one previous donation) and non-donors (never donated). Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess the association between each attitude and motivation on donation status. Odds-ratio (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) adjusted for potential confounders, were obtained. Results: Out of 362 participants, 12.7% (n = 46) had ever donated blood and 56.5% (n = 26) of them were regular donors. Out of 316 non-donors, 88.0% (n = 278) will donate blood under request. There were no differences between donors and non-donors regarding the attitudes towards blood donation. From all motivations only "be a civic duty" had a significant impact on donor status, such that participants reporting this motivation are more likely to be blood donors (OR = 2.58; IC95%:1.34-4.99) than their counterparts. Conclusion: This study revealed that 80.0% of undergraduate health science students are non-donors, but they are available to donate blood under request. Campaigns and advertising methods focused on the emergent needs for blood donation could play an important role in the recruitment of new donors among undergraduate students.

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Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students

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Antão

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“…A study conducted in Serbia among medical students showed that those who were willing to donate blood to anyone had higher odds of donating blood [30]. This type of altruistic behavior needs to be cultivated as it has been shown to influence voluntary blood donation and retention of blood donors [31–34].…”

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Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Factors Associated with Voluntary Blood Donation among University Students in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Elias

Mauka²,

Philemon

et al. 2016

Journal of Blood Transfusion

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Background. Understanding the knowledge and awareness of blood donation among potential blood donors in the population, like young people, and the associated attitudes and practices is important. Methodology. This was a cross-sectional study whereby a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information from the consenting participants. Results. A total of 422 participants were enrolled. Their mean age was 24.2 (SD 3.6) years. Of the 422, 30% have ever donated blood. 55% of those who had ever donated were repeated blood donors. Majority of the participants (93%) had positive attitudes towards blood donation and 88% were willing to donate in the future. Factors that were significantly associated with ever donating blood were male gender, knowing a person who has donated blood, knowledge of the amount of blood donated, willingness to donate in the future, and not expecting any postdonation reward. Discussion. High awareness, positive attitude, and high intention to donate in the future should be used to underscore the need to educate the young people on the value of blood donation in saving lives and to give them correct information on overall requirements for blood donation.

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“…The drive to increase awareness and participation in the BMR parallels similar efforts in blood [12,13] and organ donation [14][15][16][17][18]. Research in the latter has revealed that an individual's attitudes and beliefs towards organ donation positively correlate with his or her willingness to register as organ donors and follow through with donation [14][15][16].…”

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Medical Students' Knowledge, Familiarity, and Attitudes towards Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donation

Narayanan

Wolanskyj

Ehlers

et al. 2016

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a potentially curative treatment for patients with blood disorders and genetic diseases. Approximately 70% of the HSCTs currently performed in the United States use stems cells from an unrelated donor who donated voluntarily. Medical students (MS) are a young, diverse, influential population whose willingness to engage in altruistic acts, such as donating stem cells, may be correlated with knowledge on the topic. A literature gap exists in MS perspectives towards HSCT and the bone marrow registry (BMR) and prior studies suggest that misconceptions about donation deter MS from participation on the BMR, which may decrease opportunities to educate other potential donors. We performed a cross-sectional survey among the 4-year cohort of MS at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. The questionnaire evaluated multiple areas including whether MS were current members of the BMR and/or prior blood donors, MS current knowledge on donor eligibility (DE) and the donation process (DP), MS familiarity with HSCT and the DP, and MS attitudes towards joining the BMR and towards donating stem cells. The responses were analyzed and assessed alongside a self-reported, standardized scale measuring students' altruistic behaviors. There were 99 out of 247 potential respondents (40%), with 45% (n = 44) of MS in preclinical years 1 or 2, 37% (n = 37) in clinical years 3 or 4, and 18% (n = 18) in research or alternative portions of their training, of which 43% (n = 41) in total were current BMR members. BMR status correlated positively with prior blood donation (P = .015) and female sex (P = .014). Respondents had a 57.7% and 63.7% average correct response rate regarding knowledge of DE and DP, respectively, with knowledge of DE not surprisingly higher in BMR members (P < .0001). The majority of MS surveyed, 68% (n = 65), had learned about HSCT during medical school. BMR status correlated with the following attitudes towards donating stem cells: lower concern with all evaluated aspects of HSCT-time, cost, pain, and side effects (for all subsections, P < .05) but not with the altruism score (P = .32). The mean altruism score for respondents was 59.9 ± 11.3 (of a possible 100 points) with no significant difference in age, race, sex, level of training, or participation in the BMR. Altruism scores did not directly correlate with lower concern with aspects of time, cost, and pain of HSCT but did with long-term side effects (P = .021). This latter correlation was regardless of BMR status. Among MS, positive predictors for participation in the BMR included prior blood donation and female sex. BMR status did not ensure knowledge of all aspects of donating stem cells, but it correlated with less concern regarding the DP and was unrelated to altruism score. Improving knowledge gaps regarding the BMR and HSCT for the next generation of physicians and health care providers through expanded medical education curriculum may be beneficial to for the recruitment and retention of donor populations to...

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Factors associated with positive attitude towards blood donation among medical students

Cited by 22 publications

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Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students

Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Factors Associated with Voluntary Blood Donation among University Students in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Medical Students' Knowledge, Familiarity, and Attitudes towards Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donation

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