Incidencia De Donantes De Sangre

Analyzing sociodemographic factors amongst blood donors
Namgay Shenga, KR Thankappan,1 CC Kartha,2 and Ranabir Pal3
IIDD Cell, Government of Sikkim, Sikkim, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
1Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala, India
2Department of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
3Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, 5th Mile, Tadong, Gangtok, India

INTRODUCTION
The need for blood is an important concern to the society as a whole. Blood transfusionis a fundamental and requisite part of any National Health Service for optimum management of emergency conditions like severe trauma shock and resuscitation with the optimum stock of its different components, semantics. To run a hospital without a blood transfusion service is to invite severe difficulties in the daily operations of that institution. The reality is that no hospital can functioneffectively without an efficient blood supply.[1]
There should be enough blood and the component units in a blood bank available for everybody's requirements. The therapeutic use of specific portions – components of blood, e.g. factor VIII concentrates, packed red cells or platelets rather than whole blood is important in the advent of modern transfusion services. But, non-availability of sufficientbasic blood units is a problem in Sikkim. The hospitals rely on the relatives of a patient to donate the necessary blood as there are not enough voluntary blood donations to help the needy patients. The blood is donated to a maximum on replacement basis. Blood banks stress the doctors, the nurses and the relatives of the patient and urge them to send replacement donors to maintain their stock.This is not a good system as the relatives of the patients are pressurized to find donors and it is frequently observed that professional blood donors are brought to donate blood in guise of being replacement donors. And, it is a well-established fact that professional donors constitute a group with high-risk behavior leading to greater chances of transfusion-transmitted diseases. The voluntaryblood donation system in the state of Sikkim is 15%.[2]
Over a million blood units are collected from donors every year; nevertheless, many more millions still need to be collected to meet the global demand and ensure sufficient and timely provision of blood.[3]
Human blood is an essential element of human life and there are no substitutes.[4]
Voluntary donation system is by far the best and itneeds to be strengthened. Thus, the study of understanding the various factors that could change the perception and awareness about blood donation among the general population may prove to be useful for the successful implementation of a blood donation program in the state, especially in improving the voluntary blood donation system. Blood donation is important for not only saving people's lives butalso for the pursuit of a better social and living environment, and voluntary blood donation is of great social importance. It is important that voluntary non-remunerated blood donations should be promoted, accepted and practiced for safe blood supply.[5]
The objective of the present study was to identify the sociodemographic correlates for knowledge of prospective blood donors among the generalpopulation in Sikkim to understand the various factors that can help to plan the change in the perception and awareness about blood donation programs in the state. Broadly, there are three types of knowledge models: mathematical models, descriptive models and graphical models. Typically, a model only includes those variables that are sufficient to represent the phenomena in question. All models...