Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece

The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for the last two years and it has affected our society and, amongst other things, has had a negative impact on blood donation, which has led to a significant reduction in blood supplies worldwide. The imposed restrictions in terms of physical presence and tran...

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Autores principales: Gkirtsou, Christina, Konstantinidis, Theocharis, Cassimos, Dimitrios, Konstantinidou, Eleni I., Kontekaki, Eftychia G., Rekari, Viki, Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia, Martinis, Georges, Stergiannis, Pantelis
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564360
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094963
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author Gkirtsou, Christina
Konstantinidis, Theocharis
Cassimos, Dimitrios
Konstantinidou, Eleni I.
Kontekaki, Eftychia G.
Rekari, Viki
Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia
Martinis, Georges
Stergiannis, Pantelis
author_facet Gkirtsou, Christina
Konstantinidis, Theocharis
Cassimos, Dimitrios
Konstantinidou, Eleni I.
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for the last two years and it has affected our society and, amongst other things, has had a negative impact on blood donation, which has led to a significant reduction in blood supplies worldwide. The imposed restrictions in terms of physical presence and transportation, and the fear of the unknown, have aggravated the situation. In Greece, after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the blood supplies at the blood transfusion units (BTUs) were dramatically reduced. Although the blood transfusions were lessened during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the blood stocks at all the BTUs of the country were also reduced.
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spelling pubmed-91011852022-05-14 Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece Gkirtsou, Christina Konstantinidis, Theocharis Cassimos, Dimitrios Konstantinidou, Eleni I. Kontekaki, Eftychia G. Rekari, Viki Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia Martinis, Georges Stergiannis, Pantelis Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for the last two years and it has affected our society and, amongst other things, has had a negative impact on blood donation, which has led to a significant reduction in blood supplies worldwide. The imposed restrictions in terms of physical presence and transportation, and the fear of the unknown, have aggravated the situation. In Greece, after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the blood supplies at the blood transfusion units (BTUs) were dramatically reduced. Although the blood transfusions were lessened during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the blood stocks at all the BTUs of the country were also reduced. MDPI 2022-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9101185/ /pubmed/35564360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094963 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gkirtsou, Christina
Konstantinidis, Theocharis
Cassimos, Dimitrios
Konstantinidou, Eleni I.
Kontekaki, Eftychia G.
Rekari, Viki
Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia
Martinis, Georges
Stergiannis, Pantelis
Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece
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title_full Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece
title_fullStr Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece
title_full_unstemmed Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece
title_short Views and Attitudes of Blood Donors toward Blood Donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thrace Region, Greece
title_sort views and attitudes of blood donors toward blood donation during the covid-19 pandemic in thrace region, greece
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564360
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094963
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