Nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes of blood donation: A multicentre study

Giancarlo Cicolini, Dania Comparcini, Sara Alfieri, Elena Zito, Elena Marta, Marco Tomietto and Valentina Simonetti

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2019, vol. 28, issue 9-10, 1829-1838

Abstract: Aims and objectives To investigate factors involved in the blood donation (BD) in a population of Italian nursing students (NSs). Background Young people are still numerically limited among potential blood donors. Recent research on this topic has underlined the need to promote recruitment programmes and focused advertising campaigns to specific targeted population. Design Cross‐sectional study. The STROBE checklist was used to grant adequate and complete reporting of research. Methods The study was carried out in five Italian Universities, and a structured, 22‐item questionnaire was distributed to 532 NSs (mean age = 24.64, SD = 7.41, min = 19; max = 55; population, female = 80.8% of total) to explore propensity, obstacles, knowledge of BD and to assess associations between variables. Descriptive (frequency, mean and SD) and inferential (χ2) statistics were conducted. Results The overall level of knowledge among NSs donors is high, when compared with non‐donors (p

Date: 2019
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