Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students

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Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Maria José
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Nogueira, António José M., Antão, Celeste, Teixeira, Cristina
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/9168
Resumo: Undergraduate students are a target for blood donation, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group. Aim: To understand motivations and attitudes underpinning the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study enrolling undergraduate students of a College of Health Sciences in the Northeast of Portugal (January/February, 2017). Data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire covering questions about motivations (n = 8) and attitudes (n = 5) towards the act of blood donation. Participants were classified by donation status into donors (one previous donation) and non-donors (never donated). Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess the association between each attitude and motivation on donation status. Odds-ratio (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) adjusted for potential confounders, were obtained. Results: Out of 362 participants, 12.7% (n = 46) had ever donated blood and 56.5% (n = 26) of them were regular donors. Out of 316 non-donors, 88.0% (n = 278) will donate blood under request. There were no differences between donors and non-donors regarding the attitudes towards blood donation. From all motivations only “be a civic duty” had a significant impact on donor status, such that participants reporting this motivation are more likely to be blood donors (OR = 2.58; IC95%:1.34-4.99) than their counterparts. Conclusion: This study revealed that 80.0% of undergraduate health science students are non-donors, but they are available to donate blood under request. Campaigns and advertising methods focused on the emergent needs for blood donation could play an important role in the recruitment of new donors among undergraduate students
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spelling Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science studentsAttitudesBlood donationMotivationsUndergraduate studentsUndergraduate students are a target for blood donation, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group. Aim: To understand motivations and attitudes underpinning the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study enrolling undergraduate students of a College of Health Sciences in the Northeast of Portugal (January/February, 2017). Data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire covering questions about motivations (n = 8) and attitudes (n = 5) towards the act of blood donation. Participants were classified by donation status into donors (one previous donation) and non-donors (never donated). Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess the association between each attitude and motivation on donation status. Odds-ratio (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) adjusted for potential confounders, were obtained. Results: Out of 362 participants, 12.7% (n = 46) had ever donated blood and 56.5% (n = 26) of them were regular donors. Out of 316 non-donors, 88.0% (n = 278) will donate blood under request. There were no differences between donors and non-donors regarding the attitudes towards blood donation. From all motivations only “be a civic duty” had a significant impact on donor status, such that participants reporting this motivation are more likely to be blood donors (OR = 2.58; IC95%:1.34-4.99) than their counterparts. Conclusion: This study revealed that 80.0% of undergraduate health science students are non-donors, but they are available to donate blood under request. Campaigns and advertising methods focused on the emergent needs for blood donation could play an important role in the recruitment of new donors among undergraduate studentsBiblioteca Digital do IPBGomes, Maria JoséNogueira, António José M.Antão, CelesteTeixeira, Cristina2018-01-19T10:00:00Z20192019-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/9168engGomes, Maria José; Nogueira, António José M.; Antão, Celeste; Teixeira, Cristina (2019). Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students. Transfusion and Apheresis Science. ISSN 1473-0502.1473-050210.1016/j.transci.2018.12.018info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-21T10:42:46Zoai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/9168Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:09:00.489098Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
title Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
spellingShingle Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
Gomes, Maria José
Attitudes
Blood donation
Motivations
Undergraduate students
title_short Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
title_full Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
title_fullStr Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
title_full_unstemmed Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
title_sort Motivations and attitudes towards the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students
author Gomes, Maria José
author_facet Gomes, Maria José
Nogueira, António José M.
Antão, Celeste
Teixeira, Cristina
author_role author
author2 Nogueira, António José M.
Antão, Celeste
Teixeira, Cristina
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Biblioteca Digital do IPB
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Gomes, Maria José
Nogueira, António José M.
Antão, Celeste
Teixeira, Cristina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Attitudes
Blood donation
Motivations
Undergraduate students
topic Attitudes
Blood donation
Motivations
Undergraduate students
description Undergraduate students are a target for blood donation, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group. Aim: To understand motivations and attitudes underpinning the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study enrolling undergraduate students of a College of Health Sciences in the Northeast of Portugal (January/February, 2017). Data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire covering questions about motivations (n = 8) and attitudes (n = 5) towards the act of blood donation. Participants were classified by donation status into donors (one previous donation) and non-donors (never donated). Multiple logistic regression models were used to assess the association between each attitude and motivation on donation status. Odds-ratio (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) adjusted for potential confounders, were obtained. Results: Out of 362 participants, 12.7% (n = 46) had ever donated blood and 56.5% (n = 26) of them were regular donors. Out of 316 non-donors, 88.0% (n = 278) will donate blood under request. There were no differences between donors and non-donors regarding the attitudes towards blood donation. From all motivations only “be a civic duty” had a significant impact on donor status, such that participants reporting this motivation are more likely to be blood donors (OR = 2.58; IC95%:1.34-4.99) than their counterparts. Conclusion: This study revealed that 80.0% of undergraduate health science students are non-donors, but they are available to donate blood under request. Campaigns and advertising methods focused on the emergent needs for blood donation could play an important role in the recruitment of new donors among undergraduate students
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