Assessment of Blood Donation Practice and Its Associated Factors Among Wollega University Undergraduate Students, Ethiopia by Shama AT, Teka G, Yohannes S, Tesfaye B, Ebisa H, Gebre DS, Terefa DR

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Estimation of Serum Ferritin Levels in Blood Donors and its Association with Frequency of Blood Donation and Blood Indices by Amrita S Kumar, A Geetha, Jim Joe, Arun Mathew Chacko

“…Introduction: Blood donation is one of the most significant contributions that a person can make towards the society. …”
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Hemovigilance: An analysis of adverse effects of blood donation among blood donors in a tertiary-care center by Anila Mani, Debasish Gupta

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Blood donation, blood supply, iron deficiency and anemia: it is time to shift attention back to donor health by Rodolfo Delfini Cançado, Dante Langhi Junior

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Motivations and deterrents of blood donation among blood donors during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Hong Kong by Judy Yuen‐man Siu, Engle Angela Chan, Angus Siu‐cheong Li, Yik Mun Lee

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Comment on: "Temporal distribution of blood donations in three Brazilian blood centers and its repercussion on the blood supply" by Roger Dodd, Edward Notari

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The influence of demographic and lifestyle factors on blood donation delay among student population: a retrospective study by Wang Feng, Wang Yun, Wang Le, Xu Zhi-guo, Yang Hai-ying, Wu Shu-fang, Wei Zhen-yan, Chen Yi-zhu, Sun Quan, Fei Jing-xian

“…ObjectiveThis study analysed blood donation deferral trends, reasons and demographic/lifestyle characteristics among students in Huzhou City. …”
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The Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal and Donation Anxiety on Blood Donation Intentions: Expanding on the Theory of Planned Behavior by Stefanos Balaskas, Maria Koutroumani, Maria Rigou

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Assessment of the knowledge beliefs and associated factors among Saudi adults towards blood donation in Saudi Arabia by Wajid Syed, Ahmed Alsadoun, Adel S. Bashatah, Mahmood Basil A. Al-Rawi, Nasir Siddiqui

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Association between religiousness and blood donation among Brazilian postgraduate students from health-related areas by Edson Zangiacomi Martinez, Rodrigo Guimarães dos Santos Almeida, Ana Carolina Garcia Braz, Antonio Carlos Duarte de Carvalho

“…Organizational religiousness was found to be associated with attitudes related to blood donation. This study also shows evidence that regular blood donors have a higher intrinsic religiousness than subjects who donate only once and do not return.CONCLUSION: This study shows that the attitudes concerning blood donation may have some association with religiosity.…”
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Impact of frequent apheresis blood donation on bone density: A prospective, longitudinal, randomized, controlled trial by Walter Bialkowski, Robert D. Blank, Cheng Zheng, Jerome L. Gottschall, Paula E. Papanek

“…Methods: The longitudinal, randomized, controlled ALTRUYST trial (NCT02655055) was undertaken to determine whether BMD declined following high frequency apheresis blood donation over 1 year. The study was powered at 80% to detect the primary outcome of a 3% decline in BMD. …”
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Effects of repeated blood donation on iron status of blood donors in Zimbabwe: A cross‐sectional study by Donald Vhanda, Frank Chinowaita, Sisodwa Nkomo, Collins Timire, Vinie Kouamou

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Analytic Re-Evaluation After Five-Year Gap between Blood Donations: A Useful Barrier? by Inês Machado, Sofia Maia, Rita Queirós, Cristina Neves, Carmo Koch

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Evaluation of Molecular Methods to Identify Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis in Blood Donation Candidates in Two Brazilian Centers by Juliana de Jesus Guimarães Ferreira, Sandra Cecília Botelho Costa, Marcelo Addas-Carvalho, Mariane Barroso Pereira, Adriana de Oliveira França, Rodrigo Gonçalves de Lima, Paula Durante Andrade, Jamiro da Silva Wanderley, Luiz Cláudio Martins, Eros Antonio de Almeida, Gláucia Elisete Barbosa Marcon

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Blood donation projections using hierarchical time series forecasting: the case of Zimbabwe’s national blood bank by Coster Chideme, Delson Chikobvu, Tendai Makoni

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Knowledge, attitude and practice towards blood donation among health sciences students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia by Nur Najmi Mohamad Anuar, Wen Xin Gan, Nurul Iman Natasya Zulkafali, Nur Aini Yusof, Muhamad Norizwan Jaffar Ali, Noor Idaya Salim, Norul Hasmida Ibrahim, Valarmathie Subramaniam, Izatus Shima Taib

“…Questionnaire that consisted of four sections, namely: (A) sociodemographic characteristics, (B) knowledge on blood donation, (C) attitude towards blood donation and (D) practice of blood donation were distributed and a total of 274 responses were obtained for further evaluation. …”
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The ban on blood donation on men who have sex with men: time to rethink and reassess an outdated policy by Georgios Karamitros, Nikolaos Kitsos, Ioanna Karamitrou

“…Due to the high prevalence of the disease on men who had sex with men (MSM) a lifetime ban on blood donations on men who had sex with men (MSM) was implemented. …”
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Molecular monitoring of the diversity of human pathogenic malaria species in blood donations on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea by Tobias Schindler, Tamy Robaina, Julian Sax, Jose Raso Bieri, Maximilian Mpina, Linda Gondwe, Ludmila Acuche, Guillermo Garcia, Carlos Cortes, Carl Maas, Claudia Daubenberger

“…Densities of P. falciparum positive blood donations were ranging from 0.06 to 3707.0 parasites/µL with 79.6% below 100 parasites/µL and therefore not detectable by non-molecular malaria diagnostic tests. qPCR based species identification revealed that P. falciparum was the dominating species responsible for 88.1% (52/59) of positive blood donations, followed by Plasmodium malariae (15.3%, 9/59) and Plasmodium ovale (3.4%, 2/59). …”
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Voluntary blood donation among female health care university students in Saudi Arabia, knowledge and status by Shaddin A Alaskar, Jumanah A Alsadhan, Rawan M Alanazi, Lama S Alnashi, Razan K Almutairi, Yusra S Chachar, Moussab Damlaj

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Decision and non-decision making among blood donors and non-blood donors towards voluntary blood donation by Umakanth Siromani, Thankamony Thasian, Rita Isaac, Kurusilappattu Gurupachai Selvaraj, Dolly Daniel, Joy John Mammen, Sukesh Chandra Nair

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