What is it about?
This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators of African minorities and migrants to donate blood in Western, high-income countries. This is done by systematically searching, selecting and assessing the quality of existing empirical studies on this topic.
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Why is it important?
African minorities and migrants are underepressented as blood donors in most Western high-income countries. Certain specific blood types are more common among Africans and a discrepancy in blood types in the donor pool may pose a problem if donor blood and patient blood do not match well. But attempts to recruit more African donors have often fallen short. Therefore, recruitment and retention strategies should be optimised by improving our insights on what prevents and motivates African minorities and migrants to donate blood.
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I believe it is of utmost importance to extensively study factors that might hinder or motivate people to conduct a kind of behaviour, before developing an intervention. This systematic review is just the start of a comprehensive needs-assessment to develop new recruitment and retention strategies in the Netherlands. The systematic review gave input for our qualitative and quantitative studies. I hope our evidence-based intervention development will be more succesful in motivating more African blood donors.
Elisabeth Klinkenberg
Sanquin Bloedvoorziening
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This page is a summary of: Blood donation barriers and facilitators of Sub-Saharan African migrants and minorities in Western high-income countries: a systematic review of the literature, Transfusion Medicine, March 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12517.
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