| dc.description.abstract | Background: Human blood is an essential element of human life and there are no substitutes
to blood as yet. Availability of safe blood and blood products is a critical component in
improving health care. Blood will be safe if there is a nationally coordinated blood
transfusion service, collection of blood only from voluntary non-remunerated donors, testing
of blood for transfusion transmissible infection and transfusion of the right blood to the right
patient thought he appropriate clinical use of blood. The need for blood is growing day by
day as a result of advancement in the clinical medicine.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice
towards voluntary blood donation among students of secondary school in Nakawa Division.
Methodology: a cross sectional study design employing quantitative method of data
collection was used. And the sample size of 384 students were involved in the study using
simple random method and questionnaire.
Result: The results of the study are presented according to the study objectives. Results are
presented in text and tables and figures. For most findings tables have been used in the
presentation of the gathered information. Those who did not donate were 54.40% and those
who donated were 45.6%
Conclusion: Generally the respondents had a positive attitude towards blood donation since
majority fleet that it important to donate 52.6% the needle is painful were 51.8% and blood
donated Godly were 51.3%, voluntarily donated blood 51.3%, unknown person 60.4% those
who can tell their families about blood donation 56.8%, those who said small people can
donate 58.9%, blood donation causes prolonged weakness 53.9%, no weight loss 51.3%,
blood donation does not change ones religion 52.3%, small people fainting 59.6%. Therefore
the attitude of the correspondence were positive about blood donation.
Recommendation: From the findings of the study, the researcher therefore recommend the
following; the study found that the practice regarding blood donation is not satisfactory
through the respondents have good knowledge and positive attitude toward blood donation,
therefore there is need to sensitize schools by frequent visits, mass media education,
counseling, posters, brochures to increase their involvement in blood donation practice. | en_US |
