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Blood Donation Practice among Undergraduate Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

INTRODUCTION: Voluntary blood donation is a reliable source of increasing the demand for blood transfusion. Medical students are the potential pool of blood donors. This study aims to find the prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students of a medical college in Nepal. METHODS: This i...

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Autores principales: Dawadi, Pravakar, Khadka, Sabina, Khanal, Milan Chandra, Thapa, Raj Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8028513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506388
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5288
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author Dawadi, Pravakar
Khadka, Sabina
Khanal, Milan Chandra
Thapa, Raj Kumar
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Khanal, Milan Chandra
Thapa, Raj Kumar
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description INTRODUCTION: Voluntary blood donation is a reliable source of increasing the demand for blood transfusion. Medical students are the potential pool of blood donors. This study aims to find the prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students of a medical college in Nepal. METHODS: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in a medical college of Nepal among students studying from the first year to final year MBBS. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee of the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (Ref no. 245). A stratified random sampling technique was used to collect data. A self-administered pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2016. RESULTS: The prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students of the medical college is 41 (22.20%) (17.35-27.05 at 95% Confidence Interval). The practice of blood donation is seen more among students of the final year 15 (35.71%) and the least among first year 3 (8.57%). Most of the donors, 24 (58.54%), have donated blood only once before. The most common reasons for donating and not donating blood before are ‘behavior of altruism’ 12 (29.27%) and ‘I am not fit/disapproved’ 44 (30.56%) respectively. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows less prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students. It points to the need for more extensive studies to explore the factors deterring medical students from donating blood. Definitive strategies are also needed to encourage medical students to increased voluntary participation in blood donation.
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spelling pubmed-80285132021-04-08 Blood Donation Practice among Undergraduate Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study Dawadi, Pravakar Khadka, Sabina Khanal, Milan Chandra Thapa, Raj Kumar JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Original Article INTRODUCTION: Voluntary blood donation is a reliable source of increasing the demand for blood transfusion. Medical students are the potential pool of blood donors. This study aims to find the prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students of a medical college in Nepal. METHODS: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in a medical college of Nepal among students studying from the first year to final year MBBS. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee of the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (Ref no. 245). A stratified random sampling technique was used to collect data. A self-administered pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2016. RESULTS: The prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students of the medical college is 41 (22.20%) (17.35-27.05 at 95% Confidence Interval). The practice of blood donation is seen more among students of the final year 15 (35.71%) and the least among first year 3 (8.57%). Most of the donors, 24 (58.54%), have donated blood only once before. The most common reasons for donating and not donating blood before are ‘behavior of altruism’ 12 (29.27%) and ‘I am not fit/disapproved’ 44 (30.56%) respectively. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows less prevalence of blood donation practice among medical students. It points to the need for more extensive studies to explore the factors deterring medical students from donating blood. Definitive strategies are also needed to encourage medical students to increased voluntary participation in blood donation. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020-12 2020-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8028513/ /pubmed/34506388 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5288 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dawadi, Pravakar
Khadka, Sabina
Khanal, Milan Chandra
Thapa, Raj Kumar
Blood Donation Practice among Undergraduate Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
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title_short Blood Donation Practice among Undergraduate Students in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
title_sort blood donation practice among undergraduate students in a tertiary care hospital: a descriptive cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8028513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506388
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5288
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