Willingness to support antenatal blood donation among married men in a Metropolitan City in North-central Nigeria.
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2015
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The Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.
Abstract
Aims and Objectives: Improving blood availability through voluntary or compulsory antenatal
blood donation is pivotal to reducing maternal morbidity and mortality in developing countries.
Willingness to donate blood is adjudged to be an important step to the actual practice of
donating blood. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude and willingness of men
towards antenatal blood donation.
Patients and Methods: This was a descriptive cross‑sectional study. A multi‑stage sampling
technique was used to recruit 500 married men into the study using interviewer‑administered
questionnaire. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 16 software package. Pearson’s
Chi‑squared test was used to test for significant associations between variables. A P < 0.05 was
considered as statistically significant.
Results: More than half 300 (60%) of the respondents had good knowledge of antenatal
blood donation in general. Majority (85.8%) of the respondents were willing to support
voluntary blood donation. The overall attitude to blood donation was positive in 77.8% of
the respondents. A significantly higher proportion 268 (89.3%) of respondents with good
knowledge of antenatal blood donation were willing to donate blood (P = 0.0006).
Conclusions: The majority have good knowledge and positive attitude towards antenatal blood
donation. However, there is need to urgently transform this positive attitude to action through
continual public enlightenment to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.
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Antenatal blood donation, knowledge, men, North‑central Nigeria, willingness