Abstract-The current trends of blood supply shortage have raised the concern about the ability to meet the blood product demand in the future. At the time of high demand for blood products especially during festive seasons, Malaysia is unable to encounter the demand. As a result, the quality of human life is affected. This has created the prerequisite to understand the scenario and recognizing the factors that may influence people's intention to donate blood. The purpose of this survey-based study is to investigate the implication of socio-demographic factors in measuring the intention of the public to involve in a blood donation program specifically in Perlis population, Malaysia. The findings indicated that, among the socio-demographic factors, gender is predicted to have the greatest association with intention to donate blood than others. Besides, individuals who have blood donation experience in life were more desired to do again their behavior in the future than those who are not. The new discoveries generated are believed to be valuable for future research as well as in designing future blood donation program in order to encourage the participation of the public.Index Terms-Blood donation, intention to donate blood, socio-demographic determinants.
Abstract-A question about current availability of the blood has lifted up the concerns on how to keep the world population survive in the future. This has created the necessity to realize the underlying causes rely behind the scenario. The purpose of this study is to investigate the significant application of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in determining an individual intention and the actual behavior to involve in blood donation specifically in Perlis, Malaysia population. The questionnaire is adapted from prior researches on the application of the TPB. The findings indicated that, the TPB is relevant to the prediction of the intention to donate blood. Besides, among the three factors, Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC) is proved to be the best predictor. As well, the presents of blood donation experience also is said to have influence on an individual's intention since those who ever donated their blood in the past have more intention to donate blood in future than those who are not. The findings from this study are very critical since they can help the authority to improve the current blood donation program and formulate a new strategy to call for more blood donors in the future.Index Terms-Actual behavior, intention to donate blood, theory of planned behavior.
This research was conducted to examine the effects of service convenience dimensions (search convenience, evaluation convenience, transaction convenience, possession convenience and post purchase convenience) towards consumer continuance usage intention when using mobile shopping (m-shopping) application. In this study, data was collected using questionnaire as the instrument. Snowball sampling technique was applied distributed to mobile shoppers vie e-survey (google forms) within the period of one month. After the period, four hundred and twenty questionnaires were collected, but only three hundred and ninety-nine were found usable for further analysis. The findings revealed that service convenience dimensions (search convenience, evaluation convenience and possession convenience) had positive influence on consumer continuance usage intention, whereas the other two sub-dimensions, which were transaction and post-purchase convenience did not influence future continuance intention. This research also suggests several recommendations for future research. Among others, future researchers could explore demographic and psychographic elements as the moderating variables, and to include extrinsic factors like buying situation to investigate if these variables could influence consumer continuance usage intention. Besides, it is suggested that future researchers to expand the theoretical framework by adding mediator or moderating variables.
This study was to examine the influence of factors influencing organ donation decision with the willingness to donate organ. This study was conducted by taking into consideration three factors; awareness, recipient' characteristics and public perception toward organ donation. The type of research employed was cross-sectional study where 116 respondents were approached conveniently in selected accessible shopping malls at Alor Setar, Malaysia. The finding indicated that, all (100%) respondents were aware and having an idea about organ donation. Unfortunately, 78.44% believed that organ donation may bring risk to health status and 87.93% hold a negative perception that there will be a great possibility of the donated organ to be misused by irresponsible individuals, especially in the case of 'black market selling'. Besides, it is also proved that, the decision to involve in organ donation was influence by family members and the relationship ties between the donor and the recipient (89.66%). The result of this study provides the possible solution to strategize plan in enhancing awareness about organ donation.
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