1Department of General Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
2Department of Regimenal therapy, AKTC, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Tanveer Ahmad, E-mail: tahmad1@jmi.ac.in
Online published on 27 May, 2016.
There is always a scarcity of human blood at We found most of the students possess a blood transfusion service centers due to lag positive attitude towards blood donation but between demand and supply. Increase in majority (83%) of them had never donated voluntary, non-remunerated blood donation blood. Almost all (97%) including male and is the only solution to the problem. University female students were willing to donate in students can be valuable resource of safe blood future. We concluded students have more asthey can be motivated and encouraged to potential to become regular voluntary donors. become voluntary donors. With this back-Therefore, college and university students ground, Delhi based central universities should be important part of information, students were surveyed with a predesigned, education, communication and other pretested questionnaireto assess knowledge, promotional activities related to voluntary attitude, practices and the contributing blood donation. factors that affect their behavior towards blood donation.
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