Study on Blood Donation Among Medical Students of Udaipur City, Rajasthan

Abstract

Background: This study has been carried out to know the knowledge, attitude and behavior about blood donation among medical college students of Udaipur city. Human blood is an essential element of life and it cannot be substituted other than human blood. Blood is needed crucially for transfusion in multiple diseases, episodes of injuries and the only source of blood is donation. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Udaipur city of Rajasthan on medical college students, to explore their knowledge, attitude and practice on blood donation. Sample of 150 respondents was studied, during the period of October 2016-December 2016. Results: Majority of respondents was aware, and had the good knowledge on blood donation. Blood group "O" is a universal donor is also known to majority of the subjects. The minimum age to donate blood was known to majority of the respondents and most of them were willing to donate blood with a view that the blood donation is useful and beneficial to society. Very few of the study subjects have ever donated blood and the frequency of blood donation was observed more in male donors than female. Majority of the donor's preferred to donate blood to their relatives. Conclusions: This study reveals that having good knowledge on blood donation, less number of respondents had ever donated the blood. Major steps should be initiated to overcome the obstacles with provision of adequate literature, advertisements and communication material for enhancing positive attitude of medical college students so that they start to take part willingly in voluntary blood donation. A good positive attitude may lead to higher eagerness for blood donation. .

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“…16 Majority of 96.74% participants were willing to donate blood as comparing the study done by Bachhotiya et al in medical students where 93.77% study participants were willing to donate blood. 17 Most of the students 97.56% felt that blood donation is beneficial to society similar finding found in study done by Solanki et al 15 45.28% study participants were respond that most common reasons for not donating blood among the nondonors were the fear of procedure of blood donation and 30.18% were no one asked them to donate. These findings are similar to studies done by Solanki et al and Manikanandan et al 15,18 The main source of information regarding blood donation among the participants was educational institute followed closely behind by television.…”

“…This was similar to study conducted by Solanki et al in the Udaipur city Rajasthan. 15 Majority 86.17% of study participants had not been donated blood. A similar study carried out in Sikkim 5 indicates 87.3% never were donated blood whereas study done by Meinia et al reported 56.70% study participants never donated blood.…”

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