Isse Hassan Abdulahi*, Abdulahi Abdiwali Mahamed and Faisal Muhammad
Background information: Donating blood is an act that can save the lives of thousands of people worldwide. Objective: To assesses the knowledge, attitude and practice of blood donation among public health student in east Africa University (EAU)
Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted from June, 1 to 20, 2022 among public health students. A total of 40 public students were selected using simple random sampling. Data was collected using pre tested, structured questionnaire. Data was cleaned, edited and entered in to a computer and analyzed using SPSS V21. Confidence interval was 95% with P value of 0.05.
Result: 40 regular public health students which are sampled from all public health student of East Africa University in the academic years of 2019, 2020, and 2021 participated. Overall, the Sociodemographic variables showed that: 59%. Analysis of the knowledge level of students about blood donation revealed that: 90% of them had good knowledge and 10% had poor level of knowledge regarding blood donation. Public health respondents (18 out of 40) of participants had Positive attitudes which reveals (45%) had a good attitude of blood donation said blood donation is good; whereas said bad (9 out of 40) which indicate (22.5%) had negative attitudes. While natural answered (5 out of 40) which reveal 12.5% believe blood neutral. I don’t know answered (8-40) which shows 20% of the don’t have any attitude about blood donation.
Conclusion: 45% of public health student have positive attitude toward blood donation and all of the student are willing to donate in the future voluntary (14 out of 40) answered that they were not donated blood which indicate 35% of the responders never donate blood before and the major reason is lack of opportunity, medical illness and not knowing the reason. Out of the total study (26 out of 40) answered that they were donated blood which means 65% of the students was donated blood before and 55% of them donated blood voluntarily.
Recommendation: Awareness creation should be given to student in high school and higher institutions. Blood donation campaign should be given to student; possible opportunity should be given that help the student to donate voluntarily. Since East Africa University (EAU), branch blood bank at all regions of Puntland Somalia has no access available electricity at any time, in collaboration with of ministry of Health (MOH) and East Africa University (EAU), it is better to recommend to open “mini blood bank”
Published Date: 2023-12-30; Received Date: 2023-12-03
