Understanding the donor can correct the nation's blood imbalance

The blood donation experience: self‐reported motives and obstacles for donating blood

“…However, there is growing awareness concerning the current state of knowledge and the need to re‐explore different aspects of the blood donation process. In recent editorials, Gillespie [35] concluded that ‘For decades, scientific questions most significant to blood donor recruitment and retention have remained unanswered and largely unmasked’ and Popovsky [36] voiced the opinion that in fact ‘the blood donor – is poorly understood’. In addition, significance of socio‐demographic [37,38], racial and ethnic [39] factors was reinvestigated.…”

Age‐related donor return patterns among first‐time blood donors in the United States

“…An effective way to increase the available blood supply is to increase the frequency of donation among existing donors. There have been many studies of return donation patterns and factors that may be associated with return donation or donor loss 6‐20 . These factors may include demographics and experience at donation, including adverse reaction or deferral, as well as social and psychological factors.…”

Theory of Planned Behavior

“…1,5 In addition to the standard TPB predictors, a role for both affective and normative influences was revealed in the current study. Together, these findings provide strong support for the utility of an augmented TPB framework to predict intention to donate blood for the first time and may assist in informing the development of future interventions designed to strengthen the blood donation intentions and behavior of non-donors.…”

“…5 The proposed model incorporating standard (attitude, subjective norm, PBC) and extended (descriptive norm, moral norm, anticipated regret, and donation anxiety) TPB constructs as direct predictors of non-donors' intentions to donate blood for the first time was contrasted with the standard TPB model, and later revised, informed by the model modification indices to further improve the parsimony of the model.…”

“…In accordance with this aim, most blood donation campaigns target prospective donors; however, the factors that motivate these non-donors to give blood for the first time are poorly understood. 5 This lack of understanding is further perpetuated by the use of mixed samples in the literature comprising both donors and non-donors for predictive analyses. 6,7 It is, therefore, of critical importance to determine the specific factors that impact on non-donors' (i.e., those individuals without a prior donation history) decisions to donate blood for the first time.…”