Li Lin, Valero Maria, Keyser Robert, Ukuku Afekwo Mary, Zheng Dianhan
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA.
Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA.
Digit Health. 2023 Oct 8;9:20552076231203603. doi: 10.1177/20552076231203603. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.
Given the current shortage of blood donors in the USA, researchers have tried to identify different strategies to attract more young people and spread the voice of donors' needs.
A systematic literature review is conducted to investigate the current mobile applications used to track, attract, and retain donors. We also provide some preliminary results of a pilot study, based on a cross-sectional survey of 952 participants (aged 18 to 39), about the willingness of donors to use mobile apps as tools for encouraging blood donation. The data is collected using a 20-item questionnaire, which includes four constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior to assess the respondents' willingness to donate blood. A range of statistical techniques, including univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, and structural equation modeling, were utilized to analyze the collected data.
The 37 research articles, selected after applying several exclusion criteria, are classified into five main categories. The majority of the research (44.1%) is about using mobile apps to find blood donors and blood centers, followed by publications on using mobile apps to encourage blood donation (26.4%) and to recruit blood donors (14.7%). The remaining studies are about retaining blood donors (8.8%) and using mobile apps for scheduling donations (5.8%). Our pilot case study suggests that 73% of participants have favorable perceptions toward a blood donation mobile app.
Many efforts have been undertaken to employ mobile apps to make blood donations more convenient and create communities around donating blood. The case study findings suggest a high level of readiness of using mobile apps for blood donation among the younger generation.
鉴于美国目前献血者短缺的情况，研究人员试图确定不同策略以吸引更多年轻人，并传播献血者需求的声音。
进行了一项系统的文献综述，以调查当前用于追踪、吸引和留住献血者的移动应用程序。我们还基于对952名参与者（年龄在18至39岁之间）的横断面调查，提供了一项试点研究的一些初步结果，内容涉及献血者使用移动应用程序作为鼓励献血工具的意愿。数据通过一份包含20个条目的问卷收集，该问卷包括计划行为理论的四个构念，以评估受访者的献血意愿。采用了一系列统计技术，包括单变量分析、多变量分析和结构方程建模，来分析收集到的数据。
在应用了多个排除标准后选择的37篇研究文章被分为五个主要类别。大多数研究（44.1%）是关于使用移动应用程序寻找献血者和血站，其次是关于使用移动应用程序鼓励献血（26.4%）和招募献血者（14.7%）的出版物。其余研究是关于留住献血者（8.8%）和使用移动应用程序安排献血（5.8%）。我们的试点案例研究表明，73%的参与者对献血移动应用程序有积极的看法。
已经做出了许多努力来利用移动应用程序使献血更加便捷，并围绕献血创建社区。案例研究结果表明年轻一代对使用移动应用程序进行献血有很高的意愿度。
