Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals

INTRODUCTION: Blood donation is necessary in order to maintain an adequate supply of blood to patients who are suffering from any kind of disease or trauma, which requires them to have blood transfusion. Female non-blood donors are generally low in number. Therefore, this research was carried out to...

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Autores principales: Bilal, Muhammad, Haseeb, Abdul, Zahid, Ibrahim, Lashkerwala, Sehan Siraj, Saeeduddin, Fawad, Saad, Muhammad, Arshad, Mohammad Hussham, Moorpani, Manpreet, Khan, Midhat Zafar, Tariq, Ahsan, Habib, Haya, Islam, Tehrema, Advani, Rohan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26573048
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v8n4p203
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author Bilal, Muhammad
Haseeb, Abdul
Zahid, Ibrahim
Lashkerwala, Sehan Siraj
Saeeduddin, Fawad
Saad, Muhammad
Arshad, Mohammad Hussham
Moorpani, Manpreet
Khan, Midhat Zafar
Tariq, Ahsan
Habib, Haya
Islam, Tehrema
Advani, Rohan
author_facet Bilal, Muhammad
Haseeb, Abdul
Zahid, Ibrahim
Lashkerwala, Sehan Siraj
Saeeduddin, Fawad
Saad, Muhammad
Arshad, Mohammad Hussham
Moorpani, Manpreet
Khan, Midhat Zafar
Tariq, Ahsan
Habib, Haya
Islam, Tehrema
Advani, Rohan
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description INTRODUCTION: Blood donation is necessary in order to maintain an adequate supply of blood to patients who are suffering from any kind of disease or trauma, which requires them to have blood transfusion. Female non-blood donors are generally low in number. Therefore, this research was carried out to assess the main reasons behind the lack of blood donations made by females, and their knowledge, attitude and perceptions towards voluntary blood donation. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 664 female health professionals, who were selected by non-probability convenience sampling from two tertiary care hospitals. A pretested questionnaire was presented to the sample population, and the data was entered and analyzed on SPSS (V17). RESULTS: 94.6 % were aware with the fact that blood is screened for AIDS, Hepatitis B and C before transfusion. Moreover, 83.7% said that they will only donate blood if a family, relative or friend would need it and similarly 83.4% suggested that they would donate blood if blood donation camps are arranged in hospital premises. 81.8 % thought that blood donors can contract Hepatitis B after donation whereas only 29.5% did not blood due already blood loss in menstrual cycle. CONCLUSION: The participants had adequate knowledge about the benefits of blood donation. The most important reason identified for not donating blood is the lack of facilities within the workplace or lack of approach by responsible authorities. The results of the study may help in minimizing the misconceptions of the participants about blood transfusion, which would increase their contribution towards blood donation.
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spelling pubmed-48735772016-05-26 Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals Bilal, Muhammad Haseeb, Abdul Zahid, Ibrahim Lashkerwala, Sehan Siraj Saeeduddin, Fawad Saad, Muhammad Arshad, Mohammad Hussham Moorpani, Manpreet Khan, Midhat Zafar Tariq, Ahsan Habib, Haya Islam, Tehrema Advani, Rohan Glob J Health Sci Articles INTRODUCTION: Blood donation is necessary in order to maintain an adequate supply of blood to patients who are suffering from any kind of disease or trauma, which requires them to have blood transfusion. Female non-blood donors are generally low in number. Therefore, this research was carried out to assess the main reasons behind the lack of blood donations made by females, and their knowledge, attitude and perceptions towards voluntary blood donation. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 664 female health professionals, who were selected by non-probability convenience sampling from two tertiary care hospitals. A pretested questionnaire was presented to the sample population, and the data was entered and analyzed on SPSS (V17). RESULTS: 94.6 % were aware with the fact that blood is screened for AIDS, Hepatitis B and C before transfusion. Moreover, 83.7% said that they will only donate blood if a family, relative or friend would need it and similarly 83.4% suggested that they would donate blood if blood donation camps are arranged in hospital premises. 81.8 % thought that blood donors can contract Hepatitis B after donation whereas only 29.5% did not blood due already blood loss in menstrual cycle. CONCLUSION: The participants had adequate knowledge about the benefits of blood donation. The most important reason identified for not donating blood is the lack of facilities within the workplace or lack of approach by responsible authorities. The results of the study may help in minimizing the misconceptions of the participants about blood transfusion, which would increase their contribution towards blood donation. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2016-04 2015-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4873577/ /pubmed/26573048 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v8n4p203 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Bilal, Muhammad
Haseeb, Abdul
Zahid, Ibrahim
Lashkerwala, Sehan Siraj
Saeeduddin, Fawad
Saad, Muhammad
Arshad, Mohammad Hussham
Moorpani, Manpreet
Khan, Midhat Zafar
Tariq, Ahsan
Habib, Haya
Islam, Tehrema
Advani, Rohan
Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals
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title_full Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals
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title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals
title_short Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Among Non-Blood Donor Female Health Care Professionals
title_sort knowledge, attitudes and perceptions among non-blood donor female health care professionals
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26573048
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v8n4p203
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