A Study to Assess the Knowledge regarding Blood Donation among Non Medical Students of selected Colleges of Mount Abu, (Rajasthan)

Mrs. Nisha Mathew

Ph.D Scholar, Jaipur Nursing College, Maharaj Vinayak Global University, Jaipur.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: nsmanisha@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

Introduction: Blood transfusion is a medical procedure that is designed to provide patients who need Blood or blood products to correct a defect .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. We therefore set out to determine knowledge regarding Blood donation among non-medical students. Design: A Descriptive Survey research design. Participants: 100 Non Medical Students were selected using Probability Simple random sampling technique in selected colleges of Mount Abu, Rajasthan. Tool: Self Structured Questionnaire was used to assess the level of Knowledge of Non Medical Students regarding Blood Donation. Results: In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including the Age group 50% (20- 22), Gender 54% (Female), Religion 90% (Hindu), Residence 46% (Rural), Monthly Income 644% (less than 10000), father education 36% (primary education), mother’s education 64% (no formal education), father occupation 50% (others), mothers occupation 88% (house wife). Majority of students (46%) of non-medical students were having poor knowledge regarding blood donation, (32%) having average knowledge, (18%) having good knowledge and only 4% having excellent knowledge. Findings revealed that there was significant association between age and level of knowledge at 0.05.Conclusion: The result of study clearly shows that there is poor knowledge regarding blood donation among Non-Medical Students. Further research and multi centric studies required to assess the real problem behind their lacking knowledge.

KEYWORDS: Assess knowledge, blood donation, and Non Medical Students.

INTRODUCTION:

A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into bio pharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation Donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly Blood banks of ten participate in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow it.¹

Blood transfusion is an indispensable component of health care. It contributes to saving millions of lives each year in both routine and emergency situations, permits increasingly complex medical and surgical interventions and dramatically improves the life expectancy and quality of life of patients with a variety of acute and chronic conditions. Patients who require transfusion as part of their clinical management have the right to expect that sufficient blood will be available to meet their needs and to receive the safest blood possible. However, many patients still die or suffer unnecessarily because they donot have access to safe blood transfusion. The timely availability of safe blood and blood products is essential in all health facilities in which transfusion is performed, but in many developing and transitional countries there is a wide spread short fall between blood requirements and blood supplies.²

According to WHO, an estimated 38% of reported VBDs (Voluntary blood donations) are contributed by people under the age of 25 years. WHO also insist countries to focus on young people to achieve 100% regular voluntary non – numerated blood donation. Young students are healthy, active, dynamic, resourceful, and receptive and constitute a greater proportion in the Indian population. Those young students have to been couraged, inspired and motivated to donate blood voluntarily on a regular basis.³

NEED OF THE STUDY:

In contrast, in developing and transitional countries, chronic blood shortages are common. Sophisticated health care provision may be available in major urban centres, but large sectors of the population, particularly those in rural areas, often have access only to more limited health services in which blood transfusion may be unsafe or not available at all.

WHO estimates that blood donation by 1% of the population is generally the minimum needed to meet a nation’s most basic requirements for blood; the requirements are higher in countries with more advanced health care systems. However, the average donation rate is 15 times lower in developing countries than in developed countries. Globally, more than 70 countries had a blood donation rate of less than1% (10 donations per 1000 population) in 2006.

In the WHO African region, blood requirements were estimate data bout 8 million units in2006, but only 3.2 million units were collected – about 41.5% of the demand. South-East Asia accounts for about 25% of the world’s population, but collects only 9% of the world’s blood supply-7 million unit say ear compared with an estimated requirement for total of 15 million units.

Ageing populations and stricter donor selection criteria are further reducing the pool of eligible blood donors. Globally, over 81 million donations of blood are collected annually, but only 45% of these are donated in developed and transitional countries, where 81%of the world’s population live.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

“A Study to Assess Knowledge Regarding Blood Donation Among Non-Medical Students of Selected Colleges of Mount Abu, Rajasthan”

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

· To assess knowledge regarding blood donation among Non-Medical Students of selected colleges of Mount Abu, Rajasthan.

· To find out the association between knowledge scores with demographic variables.

Assumptons:

The Non – Medical Students of selected colleges of Mount Abu will have some knowledge about blood donation.

HYPOTHESIS:

H1-There will be significant association between knowledge score of Non Medical Students with selected demographic variables.

H0-There will be no-significant association between knowledge score of Non Medical Students with selected demographic variables.

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

Quantitative non experimental Descriptive Survey Research Design was used. By using Simple Random Sampling Technique. This study was also done on 100 samples, data was collected by self structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding Blood donation.

RESULTS:

Demographic data was analyzed using frequency and percentage. Frequencies, percentage, mean, mean percentage and standard deviation was used to determine the knowledge score. Chi-square test was done to determine the association with the knowledge of Non Medical Students with selected demographic variables.

Finding related to demographic data:

In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including the Age group 50% (20- 22), Gender 54% (Female), Religion 90% (Hindu), Residence 46% (Rural), Monthly Income 644% (less than 10000), father education 36% (primary education), mother’s education 64% (no formal education), father occupation 50% (others), mothers occupation 88% (house wife)

Knowledge score of Non Medical Students regarding Blood donation. (N=100)

Knowledge Score	Frequecy	Percentage
Poor (0-5)	46	46%
Avg. (6-10)	32	32%
Good (11-15)	18	18%
Excellent (16-20)	4	4%

Table showed that 46% of the people had poor knowledge (score 0-5), 32% of them had average knowledge (score 6-10), 18% of them had good knowledge (score 11-15) and 4% of them had excellent Knowledge (score 16-20) regarding Blood Donation.

CONCLUSION:

The present study aims is to assess the level of knowledge regarding Blood Donation among Non Medical Students. The study was conducted by using Quantitative non experimental descriptive survey research design. The sample size was 100 Non Medical Students. Probability Simple Random sampling technique was used.

REFERENCES:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation

2. http://www.who.int/bloodsafety/publications/9789241599696_eng.pdf?ua=1

3. .http://www.jahjournal.org/article.asp?issn=1658-

Received on 11.02.2021 Modified on 24.02.2021

Int. J. of Advances in Nur. Management. 2021; 9(3):292-294.

DOI: 10.52711/2454-2652.2021.00065