Open AccessBlood Donation and Associated Factors Among Employees Working at Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical College, Southeast Ethiopia: A Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Ashebir Nigussie Yirgu,
Kassim Hussien Mohammed,
Sisay Degno Diriba,
Abdella Kumbi Babso,
Abdella Amano Abdo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of blood medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.676
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1179-2736
DOI - 10.2147/jbm.s301826
Subject(s) - medicine , cross sectional study , economic shortage , logistic regression , blood donor , donation , family medicine , stratified sampling , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , government (linguistics) , economics , immunology , economic growth
Blood is a specialized body fluid in humans. Securing voluntary, nonpaid blood donation is an important national goal to prevent blood shortages. The donated blood plays a big role during surgery, accidents, delivery, bleeding cases, and the like. Currently, in many developing and developed countries, the blood supply is critically insufficient. Hence, the aim of this study was to assess the practice of blood donation and associated factors among employees (clinical and nonclinical) at Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical College.