Gomes Maria José, Nogueira António J, Antão Celeste, Teixeira Cristina
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal; Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Núcleo da Escola Superior de Saúde, IPB, Bragança, Portugal.
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal; Mountain Research Center (CIMO), IPB, Bragança, Portugal; Center for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Science (CITAB), UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal.
Transfus Apher Sci. 2019 Apr;58(2):147-151. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2018.12.018. Epub 2019 Jan 6.
Undergraduate students are a target for blood donation, as they constitute a young healthy and well-informed group.
To understand motivations and attitudes underpinning the act of blood donation among undergraduate health science students.
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.
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.
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.
本科生是献血的目标群体，因为他们是年轻、健康且信息灵通的群体。
了解健康科学专业本科生献血行为背后的动机和态度。
采用横断面研究，纳入葡萄牙东北部一所健康科学学院的本科生（2017年1月/2月）。数据收集工具是一份自填式问卷，涵盖有关献血动机（n = 8）和态度（n = 5）的问题。参与者按献血状态分为献血者（曾有过一次献血）和非献血者（从未献血）。使用多元逻辑回归模型评估每种态度和动机与献血状态之间的关联。获得经潜在混杂因素调整后的比值比（OR）和相应的95%置信区间（95%CI）。
在362名参与者中，12.7%（n = 46）曾献血，其中56.5%（n = 26）是定期献血者。在316名非献血者中，88.0%（n = 278）会应要求献血。献血者和非献血者对献血的态度没有差异。在所有动机中，只有“成为公民义务”对献血者状态有显著影响，即报告该动机的参与者比其他参与者更有可能成为献血者（OR = 2.58；95%CI：1.34 - 4.99）。
本研究表明，80.0%的健康科学专业本科生是非献血者，但他们会应要求献血。针对献血紧急需求的宣传活动和广告方法可能在招募本科生新献血者方面发挥重要作用。
