The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Homophily represents the extent to which people feel others are like them and encourages the uptake of activities they feel people like them do. Currently, there are no data on blood donor homophily with respect to (i) people's representation of the average prototypical UK blood donor and (ii) the degree of homophily with this prototype for current donors, non-donors, groups blood services wish to encourage (ethnic minorities), those who are now eligible following policy changes (e.g., men-who-have-sex-with-men: MSM) and recipients. We aim to fill these gaps in knowledge.

Materials and methods

We surveyed the UK general population MSM, long-term blood recipients, current donors, non-donors and ethnic minorities (n = 785) to assess perceptions of the

SUBMITTER: Ferguson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634441 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature