Impact of counseling on temporarily deferred donor in a tertiary care hospital, central India: A prospective study

Abstract

Background: Donors disqualifi ed or rejected from donating blood are known as "deferred" donors. Blood donors are deferred for various reasons. Donors are deferred either temporarily or permanently. To make blood transfusion safe for the patients, many safety measures are undertaken, and the most important is a selection of the suitable blood donors. The rate and reasons of deferral differ from region to region and one center to the other. Aim: The aim of this study is to fi nd out the impact of counseling on temporary donors deferral. Materials and Methods: A total of 271 donors is deferred against 10,853 blood donors recruited on the basis of clinical history and brief medical examination by medical offi cer during the period of 19 months from 1 st of November 2009 to 31 st May 2011. Those who were deferred temporarily during this period were counseled regarding the importance of blood donation and asked them to recruit after removal of the temporary causes. Follow-up of these temporarily deferred donors was done for 1-year. During this period, data collected were analyzed after 1-year of follow-up. Result: Incidence of donor deferral in our study was low. Most common reasons for the donor deferral in our study were alcohol consumption, followed by anemia and then, history of sexual exposure. A total of 124 temporarily deferred donors were recruited for blood donation. Conclusion: Voluntary blood donors are the backbone of blood bank. Deferral of the donors creates negative feelings about blood donation. Education, motivation, and treatment of these deferred donors due to anemia or other temporary deferrals are important aspects in blood banking and hence that these donors can be recruited again. Thus, effective measures need to be initiated to fi nd out the issue of lost donors in terms of numbers and reasons. Hence, it is important to retain the stock of precious blood units lost due to these temporary deferrals. Abstract Access this article onlineWebsite: www.ijmedph.org

Deferred and deterred: a review of literature on the impact of deferrals on blood donors

“…However, substantially higher deferral rates have also been reported elsewhere, including 22.5% in Brazil 15 , 30.9% in Iran 16 , and 35.6% in Trindad and Tobago 17 . In India, there is a wide range in deferral rates, from 2.5% to 33.0%, although most studies report low figures (median = 6.2%) 18,19,20,21,22,23 .…”

Assessment of donor return following temporary deferral in camp as well as in-house donors) in a blood bank attached to tertiary care hospital

“…The donors who were not suitable standard operating procedure (SOP) criteria, NABH and National Blood deferred donor or temporary deferred to donate blood at that time, according to the based on the food and drug administration policy were deferred. [4][5][6][7] Pre-donation temporary deferrals were coded and divided into categories covering all main causes of donor rejection and depending on the reasons of deferral; the deferral period was defined for the donor to come back for blood donation.…”

Demographic Status and Blood Group of Family Blood Donors with a Focus on Their Rejection

“…[1][2][3][4][5] This study showed , average age among the male and female blood donors were not different and mean age found 29±6 and 29±7 , according to the male and female respectively, which matched with other study , where mean age was about 29±6. [7][8][9] But among non-rejected and rejected replacement blood donors both systolic and diastolic blood pressures were lower in deferral donors in comparison to its successful participants. Thus our study differed with Arslan (2007) , a study conducted among Turkish donors, where, main reason for their deferral was common cold or elevated temperature (20·4%) among male and low haemoglobin (51·6%) in female.…”

“…5,[10][11][12][13][14][15] This present study showed, diastolic and systolic blood pressures were lower among deferral donors according to guideline [1][2][3]18 compared to normal successful counterparts , thus present study differed with other studies on donor deferral. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Finally, minimum (10.72%) female participation with majority female donor rejection emphasized that, further evaluation, motivation and clinical assessment on female blood donors are recommended.…”