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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS DIFFERENTIATING BLOOD DONORS FROM NON-DONORS IN AN URBAN SLUM OF DELH

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS DIFFERENTIATING BLOOD DONORS FROM NON-DONORS IN AN URBAN SLUM OF DELHI. Undergraduate Student Team 1 , Bir Singh 2 , RM Pandey 3 , N D'Souza 2.

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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS DIFFERENTIATING BLOOD DONORS FROM NON-DONORS IN AN URBAN SLUM OF DELH

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  1. KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS DIFFERENTIATING BLOOD DONORS FROM NON-DONORS IN AN URBAN SLUM OF DELHI Undergraduate Student Team1, Bir Singh2, RM Pandey3, N D'Souza2

  2. Research Question:What are the factors differentiating blood donors from non-donors in an urban slum?

  3. Objectives:To assess the knowledge, attitudes and socio-demographic characteristics which differentiate donors from non-donors among residents of an urban slum in New Delhi, India.

  4. Methodology - 1 • Cross-sectional study • Study Area: B R Ambedkar Urban Resettlement Colony • One member from 434 households in study area interviewed

  5. Methodology - 2 • Inclusion of subjects was based on quota sampling • This was done to obtain an equal representation in the different age and sex categories studied

  6. Methodology - 3 • Initial questions asked to assess knowledge about blood donation • To study attitude, a culturally adapted form of the Breckler and Wiggins Equal Appearing Interval scale used

  7. Statistical Analysis Proportions, chi square test, step-wise multiple logistic regression analysis used

  8. Results - 1 • 22.4% of the subjects studied were not even aware that blood could be donated • Only 7.7% had been ever donors

  9. Results - 2 • Donor status was significantly associated with age, sex, literacy status, occupation and knowledge about other aspects of blood donation

  10. Results - 3 • Over half of all non-donors cited a culturally indigenous fear, "khoon ki kami" or having a volumetric deficiency of blood as the reason for non-donation

  11. Conclusions - 1 • There exists large lacunae in basic knowledge about donation alongside indigenous misconceptions which account for the low public initiative to donate blood in this population

  12. Conclusions - 2 • This needs to be addressed through education, motivation, advocacy and the correction of culture specific misbeliefs

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