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Research question: How aware are health care providers about blood safety and blood donation and what are their perceptions about blood donation? Objectives: 1. To assess awareness about blood safety and blood donation among different categories of health care providers (HCPs). 2. To ascertain their perceptions about blood donation. Study design: Cross-sectional. Setting: R.G. Kar Medical College Calcutta. Participants: Total 208 health care providers including doctors trainee doctors nurses group D and other staff including technicians etc. Results: Awareness about blood safety was least among group D but not satisfactory even among doctors and other HCPs. Trainee doctors were well aware about screening tests. Guidelines for blood donation were best known by `other group of staffs. Most were aware about needle safety but not about banning of professional donors. Most had positive attitude about blood donation except `other group of staff less than 50% HCPs had ever donated blood and donor retention was variable. Commonest reason for non donation was `never approached by anybody. Most were however willing to donate in future. (authors)
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