Ironing out frequent blood donation

Devine, Dana V.

doi:10.1016/s2352-3026(19)30162-0

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“…Without an adequate supply of blood, the medical system would suffer and various procedures such as surgeries and transfusions would become impossible. Ongoing efforts are required to ensure the safety and stability of our supply [1,2]. There is a wide variety of donor recruitment and retention strategies available [3][4][5], many of which have focused on practical issues such as increasing the convenience of donating, sending reminders to donors and information provision including notification of supply shortages [6,7].…”

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Induced disgust increases negative implicit attitudes towards blood donation

Gilchrist

Schnall

Vrinceanu

et al. 2021

ISBT Science Series

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Background and objectives The blood donation environment includes a variety of disgust-related stimuli that may influence attitudes among new and prospective donors. To explore the causal role of disgust in the context of attitudes towards blood donation, we experimentally induced feelings of disgust (vs. fear, moral elevation or control). We hypothesized that for people who are generally sensitive to their bodily sensations, disgust would lead to more negative implicit attitudes towards blood donation than other emotions.Materials and methods A total of 123 participants completed a questionnaire package including private body consciousness, disgust, altruism and social desirability. Next, participants watched one of four videos with emotional content: a video segment depicting a filthy toilet (disgust), a man chasing a woman and child wielding an axe (fear), a man whose life was positively changed by a mentor (moral elevation) or a nature documentary (control). After the video, participants completed a Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) and questions regarding explicit attitudes towards blood donation.Results As predicted, the disgust video resulted in lower implicit attitudes towards blood donation for participants high in private body consciousness. Disgust sensitivity predicted lower donation interest, but not implicit attitudes or explicit intention. There was no effect of emotion on explicit attitudes.Conclusion Automatic processes should be considered in the development of interventions aimed at promoting prosocial and health behaviours. Management of disgust-related stimuli in donation centres and recruitment campaigns might improve attitudes towards blood donation.

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Induced disgust increases negative implicit attitudes towards blood donation

Gilchrist

Schnall

Vrinceanu

et al. 2021

ISBT Science Series

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“…There are avenues to explore, particularly with regard to recruitment, before it is prematurely assumed that the only solution to the aging of the donor base is payment of donors. Devine, in a recent editorial, commented on the importance of psychosocial research. Such cross‐disciplinary collaborations are few, but they have been explored in the past.…”

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