A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION AMONG COLLEGE GOING STUDENTS IN SELECTED COLLEGES OF THE PUNE CITY.

Abstract

“A study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding voluntary blood donation among college going students in selected colleges of Pune city.” Background: Blood donation is considered as superior of all donations because it can save someone’s life. Most of life is lost due to loss of blood during surgery, accidents. This life can be saved if adequate amount of blood is available. Around 93 million blood donations are donated annually by all types of blood Donors (based on reports from 173 countries). The average donation rate in Developed countries is 45.4 donations per 1000 population, 10.1 per 1000 population in transitional countries and 3.6 donations in developing countries. The average Annual collection per blood center is 30000 in developed countries, 7500 in Transitional countries and 3700 in developing countries. 62 countries reported Collecting 100%, or nearly 100% (more than 99%), of their blood supplies from Voluntary unpaid donors, as compared to 57 countries in 2007. Fifty-six countries Reported more than a 10% increase in voluntary unpaid blood donations and 15 Countries reported more than a 10% decrease in voluntary unpaid blood donations, As compared to figures from previous years. An estimated 38% of blood donations Are collected from donors under the age of 25. Material and method: A quantitative, Non-experimental Descriptive research design was used to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding voluntary blood donation among college going students in selected colleges of Pune city. The self-structured questionarrie and self-structured checklist was used for data collection. The data collection was carried out by using google form and data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The result reveals that knowledge among college going students regarding voluntary blood donation is poor (60%) and the attitude is positive (98.5%). Conclusion: The present study was proposed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude regarding voluntary blood donation among college going students and to associate findings with selected demographic variables. The research type for the present study was Non-experimental descriptive study and research design was Quantitative Non- experimental descriptive design. The sample size was 200 college going students and the sampling technique was purposive sampling technique. With the help of self- structured questionnaire data was collected to assess the knowledge and checklist to assess the attitude regarding voluntary blood donation among college going students. The content validity and reliability of the tool was done and the correlation coefficient was 1.001, which suggested that the tool was reliable. The pilot study was done on the 20 samples and found that samples are available for the final study. Among this data the maximum number of Students are having poor knowledge which is 60 %. After that, 36 % of students have average knowledge. And 4 % of students have good knowledge. With the help of checklist data was collected to assess the attitude regarding voluntary blood  donation among college going students. Among this data the maximum number of Students are having positive attitude which is 98.5 %. And 1.5 % of students have negative attitude. The study revealed that maximum number of college going students have poor knowledge and positive attitude regarding voluntary blood donation.