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Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries

BACKGROUND: In this survey, we aimed to provide early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate during the crisis. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We asked representative samples in 7 European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands an...

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Autores principales: Chandler, Torsten, Neumann‐Böhme, Sebastian, Sabat, Iryna, Barros, Pedro Pita, Brouwer, Werner, van Exel, Job, Schreyögg, Jonas, Torbica, Aleksandra, Stargardt, Tom
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33835509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.13103
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author Chandler, Torsten
Neumann‐Böhme, Sebastian
Sabat, Iryna
Barros, Pedro Pita
Brouwer, Werner
van Exel, Job
Schreyögg, Jonas
Torbica, Aleksandra
Stargardt, Tom
author_facet Chandler, Torsten
Neumann‐Böhme, Sebastian
Sabat, Iryna
Barros, Pedro Pita
Brouwer, Werner
van Exel, Job
Schreyögg, Jonas
Torbica, Aleksandra
Stargardt, Tom
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description BACKGROUND: In this survey, we aimed to provide early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate during the crisis. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We asked representative samples in 7 European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK) about their blood donation activity and motivation to donate using an online survey. We analysed donor turnout during the COVID‐19 period descriptively and using logistic regression. RESULTS: Of the 7122 people that responded to the survey, 1205 (16·9%) blood donors were identified, with 33·8% donating during the first 4–5 months of the COVID‐19 period. We observed that around half of donors donated less than normal. The vast majority of donors that did donate made a special effort to do so in response to COVID‐19. The majority of donors were also not aware of their blood being tested for COVID‐19 antibodies. Although the perceived risk of infection among all respondents whilst donating blood was relatively low, those who anticipated a high risk of infection were much less likely to donate (OR = 0·540; P‐value = 0·006). Furthermore, those that were adherent to COVID guidelines were also less likely to donate (OR = 0·583; P‐value = 0·000). DISCUSSION: We suggest that blood collection services consider specialist campaigns that focus on the altruistic motivation of donors during the crisis and that they continue to communicate the additional safety measures in place with the aim of reducing the fear of infection whilst donating blood.
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spelling pubmed-82507502021-07-02 Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries Chandler, Torsten Neumann‐Böhme, Sebastian Sabat, Iryna Barros, Pedro Pita Brouwer, Werner van Exel, Job Schreyögg, Jonas Torbica, Aleksandra Stargardt, Tom Vox Sang Original Papers BACKGROUND: In this survey, we aimed to provide early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate during the crisis. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We asked representative samples in 7 European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK) about their blood donation activity and motivation to donate using an online survey. We analysed donor turnout during the COVID‐19 period descriptively and using logistic regression. RESULTS: Of the 7122 people that responded to the survey, 1205 (16·9%) blood donors were identified, with 33·8% donating during the first 4–5 months of the COVID‐19 period. We observed that around half of donors donated less than normal. The vast majority of donors that did donate made a special effort to do so in response to COVID‐19. The majority of donors were also not aware of their blood being tested for COVID‐19 antibodies. Although the perceived risk of infection among all respondents whilst donating blood was relatively low, those who anticipated a high risk of infection were much less likely to donate (OR = 0·540; P‐value = 0·006). Furthermore, those that were adherent to COVID guidelines were also less likely to donate (OR = 0·583; P‐value = 0·000). DISCUSSION: We suggest that blood collection services consider specialist campaigns that focus on the altruistic motivation of donors during the crisis and that they continue to communicate the additional safety measures in place with the aim of reducing the fear of infection whilst donating blood. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-04-09 2021-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8250750/ /pubmed/33835509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.13103 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Vox Sanguinis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Society of Blood Transfusion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Papers
Chandler, Torsten
Neumann‐Böhme, Sebastian
Sabat, Iryna
Barros, Pedro Pita
Brouwer, Werner
van Exel, Job
Schreyögg, Jonas
Torbica, Aleksandra
Stargardt, Tom
Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title_full Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title_fullStr Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title_full_unstemmed Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title_short Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries
title_sort blood donation in times of crisis: early insight into the impact of covid‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across european countries
topic Original Papers
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33835509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.13103
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