TY - JOUR ID - TI - Blood Donation; Motivators and Barriers among the Attendees of the National Centre for Blood Transfusion/ Baghdad 2019 AU - Marwah Saad Abdullah , Wijdan Akram Hussein PY - 2022 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 63 EP - 69 JO - Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal المجلة العراقية للاختصاصات الطبية SN - 83601608 98932708 AB - BACKGROUND:Willingness to donate blood is affected by many factors such as availability of blood banks and theiraccessibility to the public, awareness regarding blood donation and knowledge about blood donation.AIMS:To evaluate the (Knowledge, attitude and practice) in a sample of subjects toward blood donation. Todetermine motivators and barriers that influence blood donation and to study the influence of somedemographic character with the means of the KAP scores.METHODS:A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in the National Centre for Blood Donation inBaghdad, data collection was carried out from 1st of March to 31st of May 2019, on a sample of fourhundred participants.RESULTS:This study results demonstrated higher rate of male participants by 87%, , better knowledge amongfemales (p= 0.001), females also got better attitude than males (p= 0.001).CONCLUSION:The most reported motives for blood donation was that they knew it's good for their health and becausethey liked to help others. The most reported barriers were that they weren't approached to donate andfear of the medical errors.

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