Blood donation/intention among healthcare workers in a teaching hospital in Central Ghana

What is it about?

The government through the Ministry of Health has introduced some policies with the aim of raising awareness about blood donation to ensure availability of safe blood. We assessed how health care providers themselves embrace such policies. Highlights of the paper are: 1. Predictors of the practice of blood donation include male sex, future blood donation intention, discouraging spiritual perception of blood donation as well as peer and family donation of blood. 2. Community factors are most likely to influence blood donation practice. 3. Policy makers need to pay more attention to community factors when designing interventions to bring about blood donation behaviour change.

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