Voluntary donation is a key issue in transfusion medicine. To ensure the safety of blood transfusions, careful donor selection is important. Although new approaches to blood safety have dramatically reduced the risks for infectious contamination of blood components, the quality and the availability of blood components depend on the willingness to donate and the reliability of the information gi...

Blood donation nowadays were considered to improve health status of the donors by declining human’s cholesterol level. The high level inside blood bags influenced quality. However, there was limited data about and its influencing factor on donors. This cross-sectional study aimed analyse associated factors levels in involved 120 respondents using purposive sampling as method. Data collected que...

Autologous blood donation may incur hazards that are not directly associated with blood transfusion. Graham et al. 1 reported on 78 patients who donated autologous blood before elective cardiac or orthopedic surgery in Ottawa. Seventy-three (94%) of these patients traveled by automobile to autologous blood donation appointments. These patients drove a mean distance of 130 km (80.8 mi) for this ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between religiousness and blood donation among postgraduate students. Methods: The Portuguese-language version of the Duke University Religion Index was administered to a sample of 226 Brazilian students with ages ranging from 22 to 55 years. All study participants had completed undergraduate courses in health-related areas. Result...

BACKGROUND Blood availability is an issue of concern in countries of sub-Saharan Africa where both the demand and discard rates of blood are high. Although some degree of attention is paid when transfusion reactions occur in recipients, no information is available on donor reactions in this setting. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out in order to obtain some data on adverse reactions (ARs) ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the association between religiousness and blood donation among postgraduate students. METHODS The Portuguese-language version of the Duke University Religion Index was administered to a sample of 226 Brazilian students with ages ranging from 22 to 55 years. All study participants had completed undergraduate courses in health-related areas. RESU...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous studies have shown substantial geographical variation in blood donation within developed countries. To understand this issue better, we identified community characteristics associated with blood donor rates in German municipalities in an ecological analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We calculated an aggregated rate of voluntary blood donors from each of 1533 mu...