Authors :
Indrani Devi Nath; Aibrihun Kharsahnoh; Hospi Langshiang; Manasseh Teron; Neha Sharma; Misso Sunya; Hima Das
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 3 - March
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7776633
Abstract :
Blood transfusions save lives in various life
threatening conditions. Safe blood is one of the critical
components in improving health care and in preventing
the spread of infectious diseases globally. In Meghalaya,
voluntary donations constitute only one third of all blood
donations and majority of blood donations is from
replacement donors.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the
awareness regarding blood donation among hospital
support staff in selected hospitals, Shillong, Meghalaya
by using self-administered questionnaire among 138
participants using consecutive sampling technique.
Findings of the study showed that out of 138
participants, maximum i.e., 98 (71.01%) participants
have average knowledge regarding blood donation and
majority i.e., 136(98.60%) had favourable attitude
towards blood donation. However, only 49(35.51%) out
of 138 participants had previous history of blood
donation, 89 (64.49%) had no previous history of blood
donation and the reason stated for not donating blood by
maximum participants i.e. 29(32.58%) was “Never
approached by anyone to donate blood”. The findings
also revealed that majority of the participants
i.e.,76(55.10%) had received information regarding
blood donation from “Health professionals”.
The recommendations of the study is that, a
planned awareness program can be conducted for the
hospital support staff regarding the importance of
voluntary blood donation where the health professionals
can also approach hospital support staffs to motivate
them to donate blood to facilitate the practice of
voluntary blood donation among them to save lives
Keywords :
Assessment, Awareness regarding Blood Donation, Hospital support staff
Blood transfusions save lives in various life
threatening conditions. Safe blood is one of the critical
components in improving health care and in preventing
the spread of infectious diseases globally. In Meghalaya,
voluntary donations constitute only one third of all blood
donations and majority of blood donations is from
replacement donors.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the
awareness regarding blood donation among hospital
support staff in selected hospitals, Shillong, Meghalaya
by using self-administered questionnaire among 138
participants using consecutive sampling technique.
Findings of the study showed that out of 138
participants, maximum i.e., 98 (71.01%) participants
have average knowledge regarding blood donation and
majority i.e., 136(98.60%) had favourable attitude
towards blood donation. However, only 49(35.51%) out
of 138 participants had previous history of blood
donation, 89 (64.49%) had no previous history of blood
donation and the reason stated for not donating blood by
maximum participants i.e. 29(32.58%) was “Never
approached by anyone to donate blood”. The findings
also revealed that majority of the participants
i.e.,76(55.10%) had received information regarding
blood donation from “Health professionals”.
The recommendations of the study is that, a
planned awareness program can be conducted for the
hospital support staff regarding the importance of
voluntary blood donation where the health professionals
can also approach hospital support staffs to motivate
them to donate blood to facilitate the practice of
voluntary blood donation among them to save lives
Keywords :
Assessment, Awareness regarding Blood Donation, Hospital support staff