A cross sectional study to assess knowledge, attitude and practice regarding voluntary blood donation among medical students of Jabalpur, central India

Abstract

Background: Blood transfusion is a crucial and an essential part of any nation’s health care delivery system for a lifesaving Interventions. Positive attitude towards blood donation practices among the younger generation would play a crucial role in improving health care structure. Objectives of the study were to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice towards blood donation and its associated factors among undergraduate medical students. Methods: It was a descriptive cross sectional study conducted on the 322 under graduate medical students of different professional years during September to December 2016 at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose medical college Jabalpur (M.P.). A pretested, self administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect data on knowledge, attitude and practice regarding voluntary blood donation. Scores for three domains i.e. knowledge, attitude, practice was calculated. Data on Socio demographic details and reason behind non donation of blood were also collected. Results: On correlation between the scores of attitude and practice with knowledge. Attitude has a positive statistically significant correlation with the increase in knowledge and vice versa. On the other hand Increase in attitude shows a negative statistically significant correlation with practice and vice versa. Students belongs to >20 years of age group has significantly more knowledge and good attitude regarding blood donation (p<0.001). Female students when compared with male have more knowledge and good attitude regarding blood donation. But in case of practice of blood donation female significantly lag behind male students (p<0.001). Conclusions: Opportunities for blood donations should be created regularly by conducting blood donation camps this will not only increase the Sense of social responsibility among medical students through positive attitude but will also narrowed down the gap between the demand and the supply of the country.

A Cross Sectional Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Voluntary Blood Donation amongst Undergraduate Students of a Medical College in North India

“…9,13,15 Even lower blood donation practice was seen in studies by Kowsalya et al and Verma et al where only 13.2% and 16.5% students respectively had donated blood earlier. 11,18 However, relatively higher donation practice was reported byMeinia et al,Sahoo et al and Sabu et al who reported that 43.4%,47.7%, and 38% students respectively had donated blood earlier. 14,19.20 Thus, differences exist between the levels of donation in different parts of the country and low levels of blood donation were also reported in other parts of the world as byMajdabadi et al in Iran where just 9.74% students had donated blood.…”

“…9.15 According to Verma et al, the most common reason (50.5%) among students for not donating blood was the lack of awareness regarding when and where to donate. 18 Mishra et al reported that the most common reason (27.4%) for not donating blood was fear of needles. 16 Thus there is a need to create more opportunities for blood donation by conducting more blood donation awareness camps and by encouraging the students to actively participate in these activities.…”

Critical appraisal of knowledge, attitude and practice studies for blood donation in India

“…Eligibility criteria for blood donation (age, weight, BP, lab tests, medication, physiological or disease condition, previous donation, smoking, alcohol, gender related issues) 27 7,9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] 2. Disease caused through blood transfusion 19 7,[12][13][14][16][17][18][20][21][22]26,27,29,30,[32][33][34][35]37 3. Testing such as blood grouping 19 12,14,15,17,…”

“…Disease caused through blood transfusion 19 7,[12][13][14][16][17][18][20][21][22]26,27,29,30,[32][33][34][35]37 3. Testing such as blood grouping 19 12,14,15,17,18,20,22,23,25,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][35][36][37] 4. Fate of blood components and volume collected, time taken, information about procedure and associated cost 16 [12][13][14][16][17][18]21,22,25,26,30,[32][33]…”

“…Fate of blood components and volume collected, time taken, information about procedure and associated cost 16 [12][13][14][16][17][18]21,22,25,26,30,[32][33][34][35][36] 5. Benefits of blood donation 8 7,13,15,17,22,23,29,36 6. Source of blood components 8 11,12,17,18,22,23,33,35 7.…”