Blood Donation and Associated Factors Among Employees Working at Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical College, Southeast Ethiopia: a Cross-Sectional Study
Journal of Blood Medicine Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Blood Donation and Associated Factors Among Employees Working at Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical College, Southeast Ethiopia: A Cross-sectional Study Ashebir Nigussie Yirgu1 Background: Blood is a specialized body fluid in humans. Securing voluntary, nonpaid Kassim Hussien Mohammed2 blood donation is an important national goal to prevent blood shortages. The donated blood Sisay Degno Diriba 3 plays a big role during surgery, accidents, delivery, bleeding cases, and the like. Currently, in Abdella Kumbi Babso4 many developing and developed countries, the blood supply is critically insufficient. Hence, Abdella Amano Abdo 5 the aim of this study was to assess the practice of blood donation and associated factors among employees (clinical and nonclinical) at Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical 1 Negele Arsi General Hospital and College. Medical College, Department of Anesthesia, Negele Arsi, Ethiopia; Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 1 to 20, 2020. 2Department of Sociology, Negele Arsi Self-administered and interview-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data. A General Hospital and Medical College, stratified sampling method was employed to select 122 participants. Data were entered into Negele Arsi, Ethiopia; 3MaddaWalabu University, Shashemene Campus, School EpiData 3.1 software and the analysis was done using SPSS version 25. Bivariable and of Health Science, Department of Public multivariable binary logistic regression analysis with 95%CI was carried out. Health, Shashemene, Ethiopia; 4Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical Results: Among 122 employees who participated in the study, 39% have ever donated College, Department of Gynecology and blood.
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