Questions on travel and sexual behaviours negatively impact ethnic minority donor recruitment: Effect of negative word-of-mouth and avoidance.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Donor selection questions differentially impacting ethnic minorities can discourage donation directly or via negative word-of-mouth. We explore the differential impact of two blood safety questions relating to (i) sexual contacts linked to areas where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rates are high and (ii) travelling to areas where malaria is endemic. Epidemiological data are used to assess infection risk and the need for these questions.

Materials and methods

We report two studies. Study 1 is a behavioural study on negative word-of-mouth and avoiding donation among ethnic minorities (n = 981 people from National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and the general population: 761 were current donors). Study 2 is an epidemiology study (uti

SUBMITTER: Ferguson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634444 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature