Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, and Factors Associated with Voluntary Blood Donation among Graduating Class Students of Assosa University, Benishangul Gumuz, Ethiopia, 2018

Abstract

Background: Blood transfusion is a vital therapeutic approach in modern health care that saves millions of lives, but there is a great challenge to gate sufficient voluntary blood donation in developing country like Ethiopia at the same time pregnancy and child birth related problem, rod traffic accident, malaria-related death is high. Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional quantitative study was used from April 27 to May 11, 2018, and data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. stratified sampling method was used and an individual was selected by simple random sampling within each stratum. EPI data version 3.02 for data entry and SPSS version 16 for analysis was used .both bi-variant and multi-variant analysis was computed and significance was declared at AOR<0.05. Result: From the total study participants, 162 (48.5%) had adequate knowledge, 230 (68.9%) of the respondent had favorable attitudes towards blood donation whereas only 85(25.4%) have ever donated blood in their lifetime. Having inadequate knowledge 3.118 times more likely nondonors[AOR=3.118: 1.775, 5.479] than compared to those having adequate knowledge, and unfavorable attitude 4.254 times non-donors than compared to those having a favorable attitude.