Knowledge and attitudes towards voluntary blood donation in students of a public university in Lima-Peru

• Autores: Cuba Sancho, Juana Matilde, Paredes García, Verónica Amparo, Merino Lozano, Alicia Lourdes
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad María Auxiliadora
• Repositorio: Agora
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaagora.com:article/168
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistaagora.com/index.php/cieUMA/article/view/168
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Donación voluntaria de sangre; conocimientos; estudiantes; actitudes

Objective: Determine knowledge and attitudes about voluntary blood donation of nursing and medical students from a public University 2018. Material and Method: applied research, with a quantitative approach, descriptive-comparative, cross-sectional study. The sample included 59 nursing students and 64 medical students. The survey was used as a technique and as instruments a questionnaire for knowledge and a modified Likert-type scale for attitudes, with prior consent informed. Results: 86% of Nursing students and 88% of Medicine students have knowledge about voluntary blood donation; 63% of nursing students and 59% of medicine do not know the requirements to donate blood such as age, weight, donation interval, among others; 70-69% of students from both faculties know the procedure that is carried out, such as the amount of blood to be donated, contraindications, the importance, places of donation; Regarding the attitude that they present towards blood donation, 65% of medical students and 56% of nursing students show an attitude of acceptance while 27% and 42% of medical and nursing students showed an attitude of indifference, constituting themselves as a critical issue, which must be addressed by health professionals designing strategies that allow generating a culture of donation in the general population. Conclusions: Most of the students of both faculties have knowledge about blood donation and the procedure that is applied, however, the majority do not have knowledge about the requirements that are needed to donate, about the attitude of most of the students they show acceptance, and another group indifference.