Hong Kong young people′s blood donation behavior

Juliana Hong · Alice Yuen Loke

18 citations0/0 files storedAsian Journal of Transfusion Science

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Blood donation and transfusion practices Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering Organ Donation and Transplantation

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Similar to other developed countries, only 3% of the total population in Hong Kong donate blood (Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service 2003). More than 20% of annual donations come from youngsters aged 18-25. However, this category of donors has decreased gradually from 24.6% in 2004 to 22.9% in 2008. This study aims to examine the characteristics and intention of young blood donors versus nondonors in Hong Kong; and to explore the factors that may influence Hong Kong young people's donation behavior. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study using questionnaire to solicit information from young people including both blood donors and non-donors. RESULTS: It showed that more non-donors were underweight (26%) than blood donors (16.9%). Blood donors demonstrated to have more knowledge on the usage of donated blood (87.2%). Nearly half of youngster admitted that they made use of donation as a means for blood testing (53.1%) or free physical check-up (47.3%). CONCLUSIONS: Recruitment strategies should focus on the enhancement of health education programs related to blood and blood donation for young people to increase their awareness of blood and alleviate their misconceptions about blood donation.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 18 citations exist upstream.

References

2004The Theory of Planned Behaviour 1995The theory of planned behaviour: The effects of perceived behavioural control and self‐efficacy 2019The Theory of Planned Behaviour 1998Distinguishing Between Perceived Behavioral Control and Self‐Efficacy in the Domain of Academic Achievement Intentions and Behaviors 1998Self‐Identity and the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Useful Addition or an Unhelpful Artifice?1 2004An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to blood donation: the importance of self-efficacy 1990Why do they give the gift of life? A review of research on blood donors since 1977 2008Blood donation and the nature of altruism

Cited by

2015Donation frequency and its association with demographic characteristics – a 1‐year observational study 2013Variation of motivation between weekday and weekend donors and their association with distance from blood donation centres 2019Donor recruitment: motivate their hearts 2019Test seeking: are healthcare professionals referring people to blood centers for infections marker testing?

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.