Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Associated Factors of Blood Donation among Health Care Workers in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia

Dejen, Ambaye (2015) Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Associated Factors of Blood Donation among Health Care Workers in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Background- Blood is a specialized body fluid in humans that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from them. 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. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world of 510 deaths per 100 000 live births, also has the lowest blood donation rates. The donated blood plays a big role during surgery, accident, delivery cases, bleeding cases such as peptic ulcer, liver diseases, lung diseases, cancer cases, blood diseases such as hemophilia, anemia and thalassemia, new born baby with blood diseases, burn cases etc Objective – The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of blood donation among health workers in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods- Institution based cross sectional study design was conducted among all health care workers of Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital. The dependent variable of the study were knowledge, Attitude and practice where as the independent variables include health care workers socio demographic characteristics. The data was collected by pre-tested and structured self administered questionnaire. Data quality was maintained by providing training to data collectors and by doing pre-test as well as by providing frequent supervision. Finally data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20 software. Result - All 295 respondents were in the age range of 21-59 years with a mean age of 28.23 & SD of 6.432 year. From the total participants 176(59.7%) were male. One hundred sixty (54.2% %) and 135(45.8%) of respondents have good and poor level of knowledge regarding blood donation respectively. From the sociodemographic factors, sex was statistically and significantly associated with knowledge of blood donation. Being male was 1.75 times more knowledgeable than females [AOR (95%CI) 1.75(1.00, 3.07)]. The other statistically significant factor was marital status. Married health care workers were 3 times knowledgeable than single [AOR VII (95%CI) 3.24(1.65, 6.37)].Department was also among the statistically significant factors. Being Laboratory were 63% less likely to have good knowledge than physician [AOR (95%CI) 0.37(0.12, 1.16). One hundred ninety five (66.1%) of respondents have poor attitude towards blood donation. From the health care workers socio-demographic factors, age was statistically and significantly associated with attitude towards blood donation. Health workers aged between 31&40 were 1.5 times having good attitude towards blood donation than those who are above 40[AOR (95%CI) 1.50(0.38, 5.89)]. Similarly, those health workers who had 6 month to one year work experience 4 times having good attitude than those who had above 5 years experience[AOR (95%CI) 4.08 (1.31,12.73)]. The other statistically significant socio-demographic factor was department. Being a nurse were 51%less likely to have good attitude towards blood donation than others (AOR (95%) 0.49 (0.23, 1.08)].

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Attitude, Blood donation, Donors, Health workers, Knowledge, practice
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions: Africana
Depositing User: Vincent Mpoza
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2018 12:29
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2018 12:29
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6271

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