The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations
During a crisis, society calls for individuals to take prosocial actions that promote crisis management. Indeed, individuals show higher willingness to help after a disaster. However, the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant differences as it is an ongoing crisis that affects all individuals and h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35324952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265171 |
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author | Veseli, Besarta Sandner, Sabrina Studte, Sinika Clement, Michel |
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description | During a crisis, society calls for individuals to take prosocial actions that promote crisis management. Indeed, individuals show higher willingness to help after a disaster. However, the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant differences as it is an ongoing crisis that affects all individuals and has the potential to pose a direct health threat to anyone. Therefore, we propose that the pandemic may also negatively affect willingness to help, specifically blood donation intentions. It requires a high level of willingness to donate blood beyond the crisis outbreak, as more blood will be needed when postponed surgeries resume. When comparing blood donation intentions from a pre-pandemic study to results from a six-wave (bi-weekly) panel study conducted in Germany during the first pandemic phase (April to June 2020), we find lower medium and long-term blood donation intentions. While active donors show increased awareness of ability and eligibility to donate at the beginning of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic, they feel significantly less able to donate as the pandemic progresses. Furthermore, inactive donors’ perceived ability to donate significantly decreases in the pandemic phase compared to the pre-pandemic phase. Crucially, both active and inactive donors feel less responsible and less morally obliged to donate, resulting in an overall negative pandemic effect on blood donation intentions. The COVID-19 pandemic compromises blood donations endangering the life-saving blood supply. These alarming results offer evidence-based grounds for practical implications for driving donations in the event of a pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-89466702022-03-25 The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations Veseli, Besarta Sandner, Sabrina Studte, Sinika Clement, Michel PLoS One Research Article During a crisis, society calls for individuals to take prosocial actions that promote crisis management. Indeed, individuals show higher willingness to help after a disaster. However, the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant differences as it is an ongoing crisis that affects all individuals and has the potential to pose a direct health threat to anyone. Therefore, we propose that the pandemic may also negatively affect willingness to help, specifically blood donation intentions. It requires a high level of willingness to donate blood beyond the crisis outbreak, as more blood will be needed when postponed surgeries resume. When comparing blood donation intentions from a pre-pandemic study to results from a six-wave (bi-weekly) panel study conducted in Germany during the first pandemic phase (April to June 2020), we find lower medium and long-term blood donation intentions. While active donors show increased awareness of ability and eligibility to donate at the beginning of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic, they feel significantly less able to donate as the pandemic progresses. Furthermore, inactive donors’ perceived ability to donate significantly decreases in the pandemic phase compared to the pre-pandemic phase. Crucially, both active and inactive donors feel less responsible and less morally obliged to donate, resulting in an overall negative pandemic effect on blood donation intentions. The COVID-19 pandemic compromises blood donations endangering the life-saving blood supply. These alarming results offer evidence-based grounds for practical implications for driving donations in the event of a pandemic. Public Library of Science 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8946670/ /pubmed/35324952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265171 Text en © 2022 Veseli et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Veseli, Besarta Sandner, Sabrina Studte, Sinika Clement, Michel The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title | The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on blood donations |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35324952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265171 |
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