Abstract
The under-representation of women in blood donation can lead to blood shortages. We aimed to determine the factors, which encourage or impede blood donations in women. The findings can help us in designing effective recruitment strategies that could encourage women to donate blood to cover the patients' needs. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shiraz, Iran, from the 1st of January 2017 to the 1st of August 2017 on women aged 18-60 years old. The demographic characteristics of the participants, the reasons that motivate blood donors and the factors that discourage non-donors were surveyed. Reasons for lapses in donors were also mentioned. The most frequent reasons for blood donation were altruistic causes (94.4%), moral and personal obligations (89.1%), the feeling of responsibility (82.7%), and awareness of the positive effects on their health (77.4%). The most common deterrents in non-donors were fear of developing anemia (68.4%) or weakness and dizziness (66%), unsuitability due to certain medical conditions (62.4%), and lack of a situation in which they were asked to donate blood (61.8%). Although altruistic reasons are the chief motivating factors for women to donate blood, the overall female contribution in blood...Continue Reading
References
Mar 16, 2002·Transfusion·Simone A GlynnUNKNOWN Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study
Mar 27, 2004·Transfusion·Richard J Davey
Jan 22, 2005·Transfusion·M E HupferJ A Letwin
Jun 7, 2005·Transfusion·K P H LemmensH P Schaalma
Aug 17, 2005·Transfusion Medicine·H Javadzadeh ShahshahaniM Taher Yavari
Sep 28, 2006·Transfusion·Bruce Newman
Aug 30, 2007·Transfusion Medicine·O Arslan
Dec 11, 2007·Transfusion Medicine·O MarantidouA Maniatis
Dec 11, 2007·Transfusion Medicine·H Javadzadeh Shahshahani
May 28, 2008·Transfusion·Stephen O CrawfordShimian Zou
Jun 11, 2009·Vox Sanguinis·I J T VeldhuizenW L A M De Kort
Sep 3, 2009·Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine·Beth H ShazChristopher D Hillyer
Sep 29, 2009·Transfusion and Apheresis Science : Official Journal of the World Apheresis Association : Official Journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis·Beth H ShazChristopher D Hillyer
Oct 8, 2009·Vox Sanguinis·A H MisjeH E Heier
Dec 25, 2010·São Paulo Medical Journal = Revista Paulista De Medicina·Leila Kasraian
Jun 16, 2011·Transfusion Medicine·M Maghsudlu, S Nasizadeh
Oct 26, 2011·Transfusion·Ritchard G CableUNKNOWN NHLBI Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study-II (REDS-II)
Jun 12, 2012·Transfusion and Apheresis Science : Official Journal of the World Apheresis Association : Official Journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis·Josefa D Martín-Santana, Asunción Beerli-Palacio
Nov 2, 2013·Health & Place·Andre RenzahoNeil Waters
Dec 3, 2013·Transfusion and Apheresis Science : Official Journal of the World Apheresis Association : Official Journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis·Marco BaniBarbara Giussani
Mar 8, 2014·Transfusion·Christopher R FranceBeth H Shaz
Aug 29, 2014·São Paulo Medical Journal = Revista Paulista De Medicina·Leila Kasraian, Neda Negarestani
Nov 29, 2014·International Journal of Family Medicine·Najd Alfouzan
Mar 22, 2015·AIDS and Behavior·Hong-Ha M TruongThelma T Gonçalez
Jun 5, 2015·Transfusion Medicine·A A PourfathollahF Seighali
Jun 25, 2015·Transfusion Medicine·T N MuthivhiR Reddy