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Blood Donation; Motivators and Barriers among the Attendees of the National Centre for Blood Transfusion/ Baghdad 2019

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    1 Family Medicine/ Ministry of Health/ Baghdad. Iraq

    2 Family and Community Medicine Department, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, university of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

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Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Willingness to donate blood is affected by many factors such as availability of blood banks and their accessibility to the public, awareness regarding blood donation and knowledge about blood donation.
AIMS:
To evaluate the (Knowledge, attitude and practice) in a sample of subjects toward blood donation. To determine motivators and barriers that influence blood donation and to study the influence of some demographic character with the means of the KAP scores.
METHODS:
A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in the National Centre for Blood Donation in Baghdad, data collection was carried out from 1st of March to 31st of May 2019, on a sample of four hundred participants.
RESULTS:
This study results demonstrated higher rate of male participants by 87%, , better knowledge among females (p= 0.001), females also got better attitude than males (p= 0.001).
CONCLUSION:
The most reported motives for blood donation was that they knew it's good for their health and because they liked to help others. The most reported barriers were that they weren't approached to donate and fear of the medical errors.
 

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Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal
Volume 21, Issue 1
January 2022
Page 63-69
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