What is it about?
The number of whole-blood donors is decreasing, but why? In this study we sent out an online questionnaire to Dutch stopped blood donors. We found that negative physical experiences (e.g. dizziness and fainting), inconvenient opening times, time constraints due to obligations such as work and study, and a temporary deferral in the past. Differences in stopping reasons were found between men and women, those who donated five or less times and more than five times, and different age-groups.
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Why is it important?
Previous research had studied barriers to donating blood, but why blood donors derigister voluntarily was unclear. We found that stopping reasons differ from barriers experienced by current, lapsed and non-donors. Lastly, we give suggestions on how the most reported stopping reasons can be prevented.
Perspectives
This publication is my first work based on my Masterthesis in Sociology and my first publication in the field of Donor Behaviour. I hope this study may inspire blood banks to critically review their retention strategies and how voluntary stopping can be prevented. I am very grateful for the stopped blood donors who participated in this study.
Elisabeth Klinkenberg
Sanquin Bloedvoorziening
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This page is a summary of: Reasons to end the donor career: a quantitative study among stopped blood donors in the Netherlands, Transfusion Medicine, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12442.
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