Abstract
Although voluntary blood donation among young people, particularly university students,
is increasing and saving many valued lives, it is unclear which characteristics of
the students have the most influence on their willingness to participate in voluntary
blood donation. We aimed to identify the correlates that might influence voluntary
blood donation practice. In total, 439 students from different universities in Bangladesh
participated in this study. Data were collected using an e-questionnaire. To better
understand students’ perception regarding voluntary blood donation, exploratory data
analysis and the Pearson Chi-square test were performed. The degree of association
of the possible risk factors was evaluated using odds ratios (OR) from a backward
selection binary logistic regression model. 54 % (237) of the respondents voluntarily
donated blood at least once. The odds of male students voluntarily donating blood
were 7.28 (95 % CI: 4.14–12.78) times higher than their counterparts. University students
who participated in various volunteer organizations were 2.43 [95 % CI: 1.49–3.96],
p = 0.005) times and students, who had seen advertisements of blood donation on social
media or a part of social media-based blood donation campaign were 4.72 [95 % CI:
2.57–8.65] times more likely to donate blood than their counterparts. The majority
of the first-year students were discovered to be first-time blood donors. Moreover,
BMI was also found to be significantly associated (positively) with blood donation
practice. We found that females, students with lower BMI, and students who are not
involved in any voluntary organization are less involved in voluntary blood donation.
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Publication history
Published online: February 01, 2022
Accepted:
January 29,
2022
Received in revised form:
January 27,
2022
Received:
November 3,
2021
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