Factors Influencing to Becoming a Blood Donor

Abstract

Background: Blood donated by donors saves lives of many millions of people. Because of the development of the medical science and population growth the demand for blood and blood components is increasing throughout the world.
Goal: To define social and cultural factors influencing the population to become voluntary non- remunerated donors Materials and methods: We used questionnaire for defining influencing factors on blood donation and randomly selected 7633 adults to enroll to the survey from urban and 4 rural provinces. For the data analysis, we used a SPSS software version 21. Results were expressed by percentage of age of knowledge, attitude and average indicators among the population and used corresponding statistical tests. Qualitative survey methods was also used for obtaining the data.
Results: Average age of the respondents is 36.4, majority of them were had higher education (40.8%), and completed secondary education (28.9%), khalkh (84.8%), and married (63.1%). As for survey site locations, most respondents were from urban (64.0%, 4887), most of them were Buddhists (51.9%). 14.6% survey respondents were blood donors who are living in urban area, female, between 18-35 years of age, with completed high education, and married. 45.4% of them were decided to donate blood by own will. To help someone and saving a life are main reason to blood donation. Respondents failed to donate their blood because family not allowed, afraid, risk of infection, doesnƒ??t wanted and busy. Most of the respondents who had a negative attitude toward blood donation live in urban area (63.9%), female (57.2%), uneducated (41.1%), and married (56.6%). On binary logistic regression, we found that person with sufficient knowledge were more likely to have donated blood before (OR = 3.15), along with those in old aged people (OR = 3.71) and living in urban settings (OR = 2.67). Conclusion: The main factors to becamng a blood donor are education level, gender, attitudte of working environment, and willines to do good deeds.