Wiwanitkit V
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2000 Sep;31(3):609-11.
Blood and blood components are important in many situations. At present, there is only a donation system for blood banks to get blood in Thailand. Although the blood bank process has been founded in Thailand for many years, there is still an insufficient amount of blood for use. There are misguided attitudes on blood donation among the people in the rural areas. This study has been designed as a cross-sectional descriptive study to study attitude towards blood donation among the people in Bang Sapan District, Prachuab Kiri Khan Province, Thailand. Data from self-administered questionnaires were collected and statistical analysis was performed. We found that people in that area had a rather good attitude but this was still found in less than 50%. We found the attitude of the subjects only significantly correlated with the level of education. We concluded that improving the people's attitude on blood donation is important. We suggest that every blood bank should design a program for providing knowledge in order to improve the attitude of the people in that area. We also suggest that knowledge on blood donation should be repeatedly taught at any education level including the school system. This study can provided preliminary results for other studies.
血液及血液成分在许多情况下都很重要。目前，泰国只有血库通过献血系统获取血液。尽管泰国建立血库流程已有多年，但血液的使用量仍然不足。农村地区的人们对献血存在误解。本研究设计为一项横断面描述性研究，旨在研究泰国巴蜀府邦沙潘区居民对献血的态度。收集了自填式问卷的数据并进行了统计分析。我们发现该地区居民的态度相当不错，但仍有不到50%的居民持有这种态度。我们发现受试者的态度仅与教育水平显著相关。我们得出结论，改善人们对献血的态度很重要。我们建议每个血库都应设计一个提供知识的项目，以改善该地区居民的态度。我们还建议，应在包括学校系统在内的任何教育层面反复传授献血知识。本研究可为其他研究提供初步结果。
