Attitude towards to blood donation among population, Mongolia, 2019 / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

Background@#Blood is an important resource, both for planned treatments and urgent interventions. It can help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer and with a higher quality of life, and supports complex medical and surgical procedures. According to WHO recommendation at least 1% of the population of any country needs to donate their blood to accommodate the basic clinical needs of the country. Accordingly, we aimed to assess existing attitudes of the general population towards on blood donors. @*Materials and Methods@#The survey identified attitude of the population on blood donation and factors influencing them, using quantitative and qualitative methods. The survey covered a population aged 18-60 years. SPSS software version 21 was used for data analysis of the survey. The survey protocol and methodology were reviewed and approved by the Scientific Committee at the NCPH. The Medical Ethical Committee at the MOH reviewed the survey materials and issued an approval (2015/3). @*Results@#The survey covered in total 3,782 people and there are 59.2% of surveyed respondents said they have never thought of becoming a voluntary blood donor. Positive attitude on blood donation is higher with statistical significance among women (59.0%), 18-25 years old (43.7%) and UB residents citizens with higher education. As education level increases the number of respondents who thought about donating blood is also increases. 16.1% of them had a history of blood donation before and 38.2% said they never thought about it. Twenty point four percent of respondents thought blood donation brings some kind of risk. Nevertheless of the education level of surveyed respondents, the percentage of answer blood donation is not risky for a person was the most common answer. But respondent who is only literal and uneducated were don’t know about whether it has a risk or not (385.37=2א, p=0.000001). Also, respondents failed to donate their blood because the family not allowed, afraid, risk of infection, doesn’t want and had a busy schedule.@*Conclusion@#There is a high tendency to donate blood populations of young people aged 20-29, women, residents of Ulaanbaatar, and uneducated and highly educated. The majority of respondents agreed that blood donating is charity and a good deed. The leading causes of blood donation is the education, gender, the desire of doing a good deed, peer influence and health condition.