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Background of the study: Human blood is essential and very important and lifesaving component, which is capable of saving millions of lives, if it is available readily. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least one percent of the country’s population should donate to meet the basic requirement for blood and blood products. In India, there is need for about 8 million units of blood every year out of which only about one-third are obtained from voluntary blood donors.
Title of the study: Knowledge and attitude regarding blood donation among students of selected colleges of Kamrup (M), Assam.
Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding blood donation among students of selected colleges of Kamrup (M), Assam. To assess the attitude regarding blood donation among students of selected colleges of Kamrup (M), Assam. To find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude regarding blood donation in selected colleges of Kamrup (M), Assam. To find out association between knowledge of students regarding blood donation with selected demographic variables. To find out the association between attitude of students regarding blood donation with selected demographic variables. To provide informational booklet regarding blood donation. Materials and methods: The study adopted a quantitative research approach. The research design used was non-experimental descriptive research design. The study was conducted in conveniently 3 selected colleges of Kamrup Metro Assam i.e., SB Deorah College, B. Borooah College and Guwahati college among 196 students studying in general B.Sc course using Stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected using Structured Self-Administered Knowledge questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS 20 version.
Results: From findings of the present study revealed that after conducting the study majority i.e., 102 (52.04%) of the students have moderately adequate knowledge, others 49 (25%) of the students have adequate knowledge, and 45 (22.96%) of the students have inadequate knowledge and majority i.e., 88 (44.90%) of the students have neutral attitude 44 (22.45%) of the students have negative attitude, and 64 (32.65%) of the students have positive attitude.The association between knowledge with selected demographic variables were not found statically significant at p<0.05 level of significance. Thus, the research hypothesis H2 is rejected and null hypothesis H02 is retained. The association of attitude with selected demographic variable with regard to age was found to be statistically significant. The rest of the demographic variables i.e., gender, father’s education, father’s occupation, number of siblings in the family, types of family, any previous source of information on blood donation, have you ever donated blood, any of your friends have donated blood for attitude were found to be not statistically significant at p<0.05 level of significance. Thus, the null hypothesis H02 is rejected only in terms of age. The present study reveals a moderately significant positive correlation between knowledge and attitude of the students on blood donation (r = 0.37) which was statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.
Conclusion: After conducting the study it can be concluded that majority of the students have moderately adequate knowledge and have neutral attitude towards blood donation. Therefore, it is important for health personnel to take initiatives in educating the students regarding blood donation to encourage them in donating blood in futures as they are the future of the nation.
"KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING BLOOD DONATION AMONG STUDENTS OF SELECTED COLLEGES OF KAMRUP (M), ASSAM", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.597-708, June-2024, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRDTH00165.pdf
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