KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, WILLINGNESS AND MOTIVATION

TOWARDS BLOOD DONATION AMONG HOSPITAL VISITORS

Mazlina binti Mujar, Nurul Ain Wahidah binti Zulkifli, Norhafizatul Akma binti Shohor*
Centre for Nursing Studies,
Faculty of Health Sciences, University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Selangor, Puncak Alam Campus
Corresponding author: Norhafizatul Akma binti Shohor, Email : norhafizatul@uitm.edu.my

Introduction Problem Statement Objectives Literature Review

Human blood is an Blood donation and the To evaluate the knowledge, Blood transfusion is a vital
essential element of human capacity usage in Malaysia attitude, willingness, and component of the health
life with no substitute. current trends concerns motivation towards blood care delivery system of
Blood transfusion is one of about the ability to meet donation among UiTM Medical every country.
the procedures that can potential requirements. Specialist Centre Sungai Buloh An adequate and reliable
save a patient’s life and Public awareness towards visitors. supply of safe blood can
improve one’s health. blood donation procedures only be assured through a
and standards has stable base of regular,
compromised the quantity voluntary, unpaid blood
and safety of the blood donors.
Methodology supplies in low and middle
Instrument countries (Roberts et al.,
2019)
Questionnaire
adapted from Sampling
Alfouzan (2014) Result Discussion
method Poor
Convenience 3.8% The Level of Knowledge on Blood Donation
sampling Almost two thirds of the respondents have a
Population
good level of knowledge.
N= 1500 Fair
This result matches those observed in
Study 32.7%
n= 367 earlier research by Alfouzan (2014), who
Setting
UiTM Medical stated that 64.5 percent of visitors showed
Data Specialist Centre Good good knowledge.
Analysis Sungai Buloh 63.5%

Desciptive statistics The Level of Attitude on Blood Donation

and Chi Square Study More than half of the respondents have
Level of Knowledge in Blood Donation
test Design Positive
negative level of attitude.
Quantitative 1.1% Alsalmi et al., (2019) also reported that most
Ethical of their respondents had a negative attitude
Cross sectional
Approval
approved by
study about blood donation.
UiTM Research
Willingness in Donating Blood
Ethics Committee Neutral

and UiTMMSC
Negative 46.9% More than half of the respondents have
52%
donated their blood.
Most of them had any experience of blood
Conclusion donation two to five times.
Majority of them donated voluntarily.
Level of Attitude in Blood Donation
Proactive actions have to be done
to create public awareness to 250
Motivation in Donating Blood
become a voluntary blood donor, 200
The researchers identified that most of the
thus preventing the shortage of visitors agreed that media encourage people
national blood supply. 150
to donate blood very well.
100
As blood donation program in Malaysia
seemed depending on the public to become
50 the volunteer to donate blood, so it is
0
important to create awareness among the
Yes No public about blood donation.
Respondents That Had Donated Their Blood

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