Abstract
Background Blood donation serves as a crucial component of healthcare systems worldwide, ensuring the availability of blood for life-saving therapies and medical procedures. To date, no studies have assessed the knowledge of blood donors regarding their own blood type, overall awareness of blood types, and blood donation practices within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) population. Aim The present study's primary objective is to assess knowledge regarding blood types and blood donation practices among adult blood donors in the UAE. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of existing initiatives and propose targeted strategies to recruit new donors and retain existing ones, with a specific emphasis on less common or critical blood types like O-negative. Methods This cross-sectional community-based study involved 259 participants selected through convenience sampling. Interviews were conducted at blood donation sites, and blood type data for each participant was collected from the blood bank following their donation. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS Statistics version 25 (IBM Corp. Released 2017. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 25.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.), and p-values of
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