Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Associated Factors of Blood Donation Among Health Care Workers In Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background- Blood is a specialized body fluid in humans that delivers necessary substances
such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from
them. Secure supply of safe blood components, based on voluntary, non-remunerated blood
donation, is an important national goal to prevent blood shortages.
Now a day, in many low- and middle-income countries, blood supply is critically inadequate.
Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world of 510 deaths
per 100 000 live births, also has the lowest blood donation rates.
The donated blood plays a big role during surgery, accident, delivery cases, bleeding cases such
as peptic ulcer, liver diseases, lung diseases, cancer cases, blood diseases such as hemophilia,
anemia and thalassemia, new born baby with blood diseases, burn cases etc
Objective – The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of blood
donation among health workers in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Methods- Institution based cross sectional study design was conducted among all health care
workers of Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital. The dependent variable of the study were
knowledge, Attitude and practice where as the independent variables include health care
workers socio demographic characteristics. The data was collected by pre-tested and structured
self administered questionnaire. Data quality was maintained by providing training to data
collectors and by doing pre-test as well as by providing frequent supervision. Finally data was
analyzed by using SPSS version 20 software.
Result - All 295 respondents were in the age range of 21-59 years with a mean age of 28.23 &
SD of 6.432 year. From the total participants 176(59.7%) were male. One hundred sixty (54.2%
%) and 135(45.8%) of respondents have good and poor level of knowledge regarding blood
donation respectively. From the sociodemographic factors, sex was statistically and significantly
associated with knowledge of blood donation. Being male was 1.75 times more knowledgeable
than females [AOR (95%CI) 1.75(1.00, 3.07)]. The other statistically significant factor was
marital status. Married health care workers were 3 times knowledgeable than single [AOR
(95%CI) 3.24(1.65, 6.37)].Department was also among the statistically significant factors. Being
Laboratory were 63% less likely to have good knowledge than physician [AOR (95%CI)
0.37(0.12, 1.16). One hundred ninety five (66.1%) of respondents have poor attitude towards
blood donation. From the health care workers socio-demographic factors, age was statistically
and significantly associated with attitude towards blood donation. Health workers aged
between 31&40 were 1.5 times having good attitude towards blood donation than those who
are above 40[AOR (95%CI) 1.50(0.38, 5.89)]. Similarly, those health workers who had 6 month
to one year work experience 4 times having good attitude than those who had above 5 years
experience[AOR (95%CI) 4.08 (1.31,12.73)]. The other statistically significant socio-demographic
factor was department. Being a nurse were 51%less likely to have good attitude towards blood
donation than others (AOR (95%) 0.49 (0.23, 1.08)].
Key words- Attitude, Blood donation, Donors, Health workers, Knowledge, practice
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Attitude; Blood donation; Donors; Health workers; Knowledge; practice