DO RESIDENT DOCTORS DONATE BLOOD?- AN EVALUATION OF VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION AMONG THE RESIDENT DOCTORS IN A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING INSTITUTE OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY, INDIA.
Journal Title: IJSR-International Journal Of Scientific Research - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: The major shortage of blood and blood components in developing countries is because of the increase in demand with fewer voluntary blood donations. Thus, identifying motivational factors affecting blood donation and recruitment of safe and low risk donors is necessary. Though a study on the knowledge, attitude and the practice of donors may prove to be useful in the successful implementation of the blood donation programme, a study on esident doctors will have an added advantage of motivating the patient's attenders also for blood donation. For this reason, our aim was to find the level of the knowledge, attitude and practice of blood donation among resident doctors in a tertiary care teaching hospital. . Material and Methods: A structured questionnaire was given to 104 resident doctors to assess their knowledge, attitude and practice with respect to blood donations. The statistical analyses were done by using the SPSS software. The associations between the demographic factors were analysed by using the Chi square test. Results: Among the 104 resident doctors, 59% were males and 41% were female residents. About 46% of the resident doctors expressed good knowledge about voluntary blood donation. There was no significant statistical association between gender and knowledge regarding blood donation. All residents felt that blood donation was a good gesture. Only 11% were regular donors. There was a significant statistical association between donation practices and gender. Conclusion: A majority of the donors were willing to be regular donors. Though our residents are knowledgeable regarding blood donation process and have positive perception towards blood donation, there is no translation of this knowledge and attitude, towards blood donation practices.
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Praveen Mabbu, Arun Rajendran, SreedharBabu KV, JothiBai DS
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