Assessing Acceptability of Short Message Service Based Interventions towards Becoming Future Voluntary Blood Donors
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Assessing Acceptability of Short Message Service Based Interventions towards Becoming Future Voluntary Blood Donors
All blood bank services, especially those of developing countries, face a major shortfall of blood donations due to lack of voluntary blood donors. Our study aims to evaluate the acceptability of Short Message Service based interventions towards becoming voluntary blood donors among medical university students of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods. A total of 350 medical students were approached in med...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Blood Transfusion
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2090-9187,2090-9195
DOI: 10.1155/2014/567697