Retention of “safe” blood donors. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study

Abstract

These data suggest that efforts to improve donors' perceptions of their donation experience, as well as attention to the physical effects of blood donation, may aid in the retention of both repeat and first-time donors.

A study of knowledge, attitudes and practices of voluntary blood donation among relatives of patients admitted to a tertiary care hospital in North coastal Andhra Pradesh, India

“…12 However in a community based study in Karnataka there were only 10.6% subjects among 141 interviewed who had ever donated blood in the past. 13 In the present study we observed that voluntary donation of blood was least among women below 30 years age.…”

Factors Refraining Medical Students from Blood Donation; a Tertiary Care Experience from a Medical College of Pakistan

“…A study conducted by Alam M et al, also proved that population of developing countries consider lack of time as a barrier to blood donation (30).Issues of time and frequency of blood donation are related. Our result showed that 27.45% of the non donors consider it as a time consuming procedure .A study conducted by Thomson RA et al, also indicated that there is reduction in the frequency of blood donation due to lengthy protocol measures like history taking, inconvenient hours etc (31). This is in contrast with the study carried out in India where 60.60% non donors disagree with the time issue rather they were more concerned about the other parameters such s fear of needles (32).…”

Management of Young Blood Donors

“…Otherwise, it may make sense to stop walk-in traffic or move donors to later times to ensure a good experience for each blood donor. Staffing levels are critical as the wait time may be one of the most important factors for donors and sponsors judging the blood drive's success, and lack of staff may decrease blood donor return rates [3,4,5,6]. The donors when waiting to see a health historian should be shielded from seeing blood donor reactions because they can cause psychological vasovagal reactions.…”

“…Their blood donation experience needs to be optimized for donor safety and to achieve the best blood donor return rates [3,4,5]. Many articles have evaluated the blood donation experience and stated the reasons for blood donation and barriers to blood donation [6,7,8,9,10,11]. The goals of management of young blood donors are to provide an excellent experience for the donor at every step in the donation process, to minimize the duration of the total donation process, to minimize vasovagal reaction rates, to protect against donor injury in those who sustain a reaction, and to maximize donor retention.…”