scholarly journals The development of the program of voluntary blood donation promotion in students population of the University of Belgrade

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Jovanovic-Srzentic ◽  
Ivana Rodic ◽  
Mirjana Knezevic
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donors ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Minimum Risk ◽  
Blood Donations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Donated Blood ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Background/Aim. Given that in each country students represent the most progressive population group, as of 2001, the Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia (BTIS) has been carrying the program of voluntary blood donation promotion and education of volunteers at the University of Belgrade (UB). In 2011, the BTIS intensified all activities at the UB. The aim of this study was to present activities performed from 2001 at the Blood Donors` Motivation Department (DMD) of the BTIS related with increasing the level of awareness on voluntary blood donation in the Belgrade students` population, enhancing their motivation to become voluntary blood donors (VBDs), increasing the number of blood donations at faculties of the UB, and increasing the number of blood donations in the UB students population compared with the total number of blood units collected by BTIS in Belgrade, with the emphasis on the year 2013. Methods. Initially, the applied methodology was based on encouraging students to donate blood through discussions and preparatory lectures, followed by organized blood drives. Appropriate selection of volunteers at each faculty was crucial. Besides their recognisable identity, they had to have remarkable communication skills and ability to positivly affect persons in their environment. The applied principle was based on retention of volunteers all through the final academic year, with the inclusion of new volunteers each year and 1,000 preparatory lectures on the annual basis. The activities were realized using two Facebook profiles, SMS messages and continuous notification of the public through the media. Results. There was an increase in the average number of students in blood drives at the faculties from 2011, when the average number of the students per blood drive was 39, followed by 43 in 2012 and 46 in 2013. The number of students who donated blood in 2013 increased by 21.3% compared with 2012 data. Conclusion. The applied concept highly contributed to generation and retention of future VBDs willing to regularly donate blood in the coming years, with a minimum risk of transmission of transfusion transmissible diseases markers.

Trend of Regular Voluntary Blood Donation and its Associated Factors in Karachi - A Comparative Analysis of Medical and Non-medical Undergraduate Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazish Jaffar
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Medical Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Blood Donations ◽  
Medical Undergraduate ◽  
Donated Blood

Background: Regular voluntary unpaid blood donation assures safe blood supply in association with minimum infection transmission. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of regular voluntary blood donation and to evaluate the causes of donating blood as well as factors impeding blood donations among the medical and nonmedical students of Karachi. Methods: A comparative cross sectional study was conducted among medical and nonmedical students of JSMU and NED University respectively from May to October 2018. Sample size was 272 including 137 medical and 135 non-medical students. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 22.0. Chi-square test of independence/ Fischer’s exact test were applied to assess statistical significance. Result: In medical group 5/21(23.8%) voluntary regular donors were recorded. In non-medical group, voluntary regular donors were found to be 8/30 (26.6%) (p>0.00). Medical students most commonly 15/21 (71.4%) donated blood voluntarily in a camp while non-medical participants frequently donated blood as replacement donors 13/30 (43.3%) (p>0.00). Major hindering factor for blood donation in both study groups was non-participation in blood donation derives i.e. 66/116 (56.8%) in medical and 53/105 (50.4%) in non-medical groups respectively. Anemia, 20/116 (17.2%) in medical and 15/105 (14.2%) in nonmedical students was the second major cause of not donating blood. Conclusion: The frequency of regular voluntary blood donations is very low among undergraduates. However, comparatively, the trend is slightly higher among non-medical group. The major hindrance in not donating blood was non-participation in blood donating derives.

scholarly journals ANALISIS AKTIVITAS HUBUNGAN MEDIA DALAM MANAJEMEN KRISIS DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Narayana Mahendra Prastya
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Information Subsidies

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis aktivitas hubungan media yang dilakukan oleh Universitas Islam Indonesia, saat kejadian Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII. Kejadian tersebut merupakan krisis karena tidak diduga, terjadi secara mendadak, dan menimbulkan gangguan pada aktivitas dan citra organisasi. Hubungan media adalah salah satu aktivitas yang penting dalam manajemen krisis, karena media massa mampu mempengaruhi persepsi masyarakat terhadap satu organisasi dalam krisis. Dalam situasi krisis sendiri, persepsi dapat menjadi lebih kuat daripada fakta. Batasan hubungan media dalam tulisan ini adalah dalam aspek penyediaan informasi yang terdiri dari : (1) kualitas narasumber organisasi dan (2) cara organisasi dalam membantu liputan media. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan mewawancarai wartawan dari media di Yogyakarta yang meliput Diksar Mapala UII. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa media membutuhkan narasumber pimpinan tertinggi universitas. Informasi yang diperoleh dari humas universitas dirasa masih kurang cukup. Dalam hal upaya organisasi membantu aktivitas liputan, UII dinilai masih kurang cepat dan kurang terbuka dalam memberikan informasi. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media relations activities by Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), related to crisis "Tragedi Diksar Mapala UII". This incident lead to crisis because it is unpredictable, happen suddenly, disturb the organizational activities, and make the organization's image being at risk. Media relations is one important activites in crisis management. It is because mass media could affect the public perception toward an organization. In crisis situation, perception could be stronger than the fact. The limitation of media relations in this article are information subsidies. Information subsidies consist of : (1) the quality of news sources that provided by the organization, and (2) how organization facilitate the news gathering process by the media. The data for this article is being collected from interview with journalist from the mass media in Yogyakarta. The results are media want the top management of the universities as the news sources. The information that being provided by public relations is not enough. The university also lack of quickness and lack of openess.

On Not Believing What You Read

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

Every student should, before graduating, see the 2006 teen-comedy movie Accepted. It’s a broad satire built around some high-school misfits whom no college admissions officer in his right mind would accept, not even in this economy. So they commandeer an abandoned mental asylum and construct their own college based on Marxism (Groucho), and they do to higher education what A Night at the Opera did to Il Trovatore. To a flabbergasted visitor, the teenage president of the college recommends the school newspaper, The Rag. “There’s a great op-ed piece in there about not believing everything you read,” he explains. Like all absurdist comedy, Accepted poses that subversive question, “Who’s absurd here?” It stands upside-down all the pretenses of university life, including its most fundamental pretense, that if we spend years here reading, we will get closer to the truth. Is there, though, any necessary relation between reality and what we find on the printed page? It’s a question that has become particularly acute today, when it seems that every man is his own deconstructionist. When Paul Ricoeur coined the phrase “hermeneutic of suspicion,” he was only recommending this reading strategy to literary theorists, but his students took it quite seriously and in 1968 turned the University of Nanterre into, well, something like the campus in Accepted. And today that skepticism is thoroughly mainstream. According to the Gallup Poll, only 32 percent of Americans in 2016 have confidence in the media, down from a high of 72 percent in 1976, post-Woodward and Bernstein. Among millennials (18-to-29-year-olds), just 11 percent trust the media. In Britain, back in 1975, only about a third of tabloid readers and just 3 percent of readers of “quality” broadsheets felt that their paper “often gets its facts wrong.” But by 2012 no British daily was trusted by a majority of the public “to report fairly and accurately.” In something of a contradiction, the Sun enjoyed both the largest circulation and the lowest level of trust (just 9 percent).

Neue Gemeinwohlherausforderungen - Konsequenzen für Wettbewerbsrecht und Regulierung

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Fourth Symposium ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

On 11 and 12 September 2018, the fourth symposium of the “Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht” [“Scientific Association for the Entirety of Regulatory Law”] took place at the University of Regensburg. The topic was: “New challenges for the public good – consequences for competition law and regulation”. The basic idea of the conference concept was, on the one hand, to consider which new challenges for the public good exist in the classical network economies of the telecommunications, energy and railway regulations, and on the other hand, to focus on adjacent sectors – such as the media and communications industries – and finally go beyond the sectors considered so far. The conference was divided into the following thematic blocks: “basic papers”, “classic sectors in transition”, “new sectors in the internet age” and “new challenges beyond the sectors”. The fourth volume of the series contains the lectures given at the symposium. With contributions by Markus Ludwigs, Heike Schweitzer, Thomas Fetzer, Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, Karten Otte, Karl-Eberhard Hain, Ralf Müller-Terpitz, Rupprecht Podszun, Thosten Kingreen, Julia Barth, Anna Kellner, Fabian Toros and Florian Sackmann

scholarly journals Iron Stores, Blood Donation, and Insulin Sensitivity and Secretion

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 1201-1205 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel Fernández-Real ◽  
Abel López-Bermejo ◽  
Wifredo Ricart
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
Insulin Sensitivity ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Intravenous Glucose ◽  
Iron Stores ◽  
Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Tests ◽  
Donated Blood

Abstract Background: Epidemiologists have observed that blood donation is associated with decreased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Methods: We investigated the relationship between iron stores and insulin sensitivity, after controlling for known confounding factors, and compared insulin sensitivity between blood donors and individuals who had never donated blood (nondonors). In 181 men, insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion were evaluated through frequently sampled intravenous glucose tolerance tests with minimal model analysis. Men who donated blood between 6 months and 5 years before inclusion (n = 21) were carefully matched with nondonors (n = 66) for age, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, and cardiovascular risk profile, including blood lipids, blood pressure, and smoking status. Results: Frequent blood donors (2–10 donations) had increased insulin sensitivity [3.42 (1.03) vs 2.45 (1.2) × 10−4 · min−1 · mIU/L; P = 0.04], decreased insulin secretion [186 (82) vs 401.7 (254) mIU/L · min; P <0.0001], and significantly lower iron stores [serum ferritin, 101.5 (74) vs 162 (100) μg/L; P = 0.017] than nondonors, but the 2 groups had similar blood hematocrits and blood hemoglobin concentrations. Conclusions: Blood donation is simultaneously associated with increased insulin sensitivity and decreased iron stores. Stored iron seems to impact negatively on insulin action even in healthy people, and not just in classic pathologic conditions associated with iron overload (hemochromatosis and hemosiderosis). According to these observations, it is imperative that a definition of excessive iron stores in healthy people be formulated.

scholarly journals Vision of the students of the University of Tabuk on the culture of entrepreneurship: رؤية طلاب جامعة تبوك حول ثقافة ريادة الأعمال

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami al-Akbar al-Dabbousi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims at highlighting the entrepreneurship culture. The concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture were discussed in theoretical terms. The advantages, disadvantages and risks of entrepreneurship as well as the characteristics of entrepreneurs were also presented. The practical aspect of this research was to study the entrepreneurship culture among students of the University of Tabuk during the academic year 2016/2017. The results showed that the students of the University of Tabuk are looking for job security in the public sector rather than personal initiatives and self-employment. The study also revealed a strong relationship between the student environment and the idea of ​​the project to be completed. The research also revealed a concentration at the level of the Tabuk region in the projects to be completed. As we have noted through the results of the study there is a tendency to individual projects and fear of partnership. A number of recommendations were proposed to support and promote the culture of entrepreneurship, most notably the recommendation to develop the entrepreneurship program at the University of Tabuk and the inclusion of the entrepreneurship course as an obligatory course in all disciplines offered at all colleges of the University of Tabuk.    

scholarly journals Knowledge and attitudes towards blood donation among students of the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences at King Abdulaziz University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAED FELIMBAN ◽  
Saeed Kabrah ◽  
Hadeel Al Sadoun ◽  
Raed Al Serihi
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Blood Donations ◽  
King Abdulaziz University ◽  
Donated Blood ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Knowledge

Abstract Background: This study aimed to assess knowledge about and attitude towards blood donation among students at the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences at King Abdulaziz University. In Saudi Arabia, the shortage of blood donors is a major challenge in blood banks. This could be due to low levels of community knowledge and unfavorable attitudes. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted between November 2017 and July 2018. A total of 350 students were randomly selected and interviewed using a well-structured and validated electronic self-administered questionnaire. Results: Among the 350 students, the mean age was 22; 345 (98.5%) of the students were Saudi Arabian. Ninety-three (26.6%) of the students had a prior experience of blood donation, while 257 (73.4%) had never donated blood before. Three-hundred-forty-nine (99.8%) of the students had a good attitude towards blood donation. The majority (86.9%) of the students had good knowledge about blood donation, while 13.1% had poor knowledge. Of the 350 students, 240 (68.6%) strongly agreed that increasing blood donation awareness could increase blood donations. Thirty-five (15.1%) of students strongly agreed that donating blood causes anemia and 54 (15.4%) strongly agreed with the statement: “Blood donation can transmit diseases”. Conclusion: These results reflect a strong positive knowledge about and attitude towards blood donations. The negative responses from students provide a platform for a future campaign that should recruit donors and motivate them to donate blood.

scholarly journals Conocimientos y actitudes hacia la promoción de la donación de sangre en docentes del programa de fisioterapia – universidad de santander -/knowledge and attitudes towards promoting blood donation in physiotherapy program teachers –universidad de santande

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Harold Fabian Cruz Bermudez ◽  
Adriana Angarita Fonseca ◽  
Jorge Enrique Moreno Collazos
Keyword(s):  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Exercise Time ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Physiotherapy Program ◽  
Physical Therapy Program ◽  
Donated Blood ◽  
The University ◽  
Cross Type

Objetivo: Determinar los conocimientos y actitudes hacia la promoción de la donación de Sangre en docentes del Programa de Fisioterapia de la Universidad de Santander – Colombia. Materiales y métodos: Se realizó un estudio de tipo trasversal con los docentes del programa de fisioterapia de la Universidad de Santander – Colombia en el 2013. Resultados: La población de estudio estuvo conformada por 21 docentes del programa de fisioterapia con un promedio de edad de 37,05 años, el sexo predominante fue el femenino, el tiempo de ejercicio docente fue de 9,20 años y tan solo el 23,8 de los docentes había donado sangre alguna vez en su vida; en relación a la promoción de la donación en las aulas de clase el total de los docentes considera importante la donación. Entre las razones para no se destacan "Temor a la extracción de sangre" y las razones para donar se resalta la publicidad. Conclusión: Los docentes son actores importantes dentro del proceso de promoción de la donación en la población estudiantil. Background: Determine knowledge and attitudes towards promoting blood donation inPhysiotherapy Program teachers at the University of Santander - Colombia. Materialsand methods: We performed a cross-type study with teachers of physical therapy programat the University of Santander - Colombia in 2013. Results: The study populationconsisted of 21 teachers in the physical therapy program with an average age of 37.05years, the majority of patients were female, teaching exercise time was 9.20 years andonly 23.8 of teachers had donated blood at some time in their life, in relation to thepromotion of donation on total classrooms of teachers considered important donation.Among the reasons not to include “Fear of drawing blood” and highlights reasons fordonating advertising. Discussion: Teachers are important actors in the process ofpromoting donation in the student population.

scholarly journals Patterns of voluntary and replacement blood donors in a tertiary care center: a retrospective study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 3368
Author(s):  
P. K. Sehgal ◽  
Dinesh Garg
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Blood Safety ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Bony Landmarks ◽  
Safe Blood ◽  
Donated Blood

Background: Blood donor base is the foundation of any blood transfusion system. In India any able-bodied individual between the age of 18 and 60 years can donate blood. Blood donors are of two types: voluntary donors and replacement donors. Blood donation should be done by low risk population otherwise there is high risk of transfusion transmissible infections like HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and malaria. The present study was conceived to see the patterns of blood donation among voluntary and replacement blood donors in tertiary care centre.Methods: In this study 50 (27 male and 23 female) adult skulls were investigated to determine the type of asterion, its distance from important bony landmarks and also the nearby venous sinuses were measured.Results: Of the total 340078, 298421(87.75%) collections were voluntary and 41657(12.25%) were replacement collections. A total of 2810 camps were held to gather blood through voluntary donors. Number of blood camps held show an increasing pattern as we progress in time. Also, the trends in voluntary blood donations increased over the period and more donors donated blood whereas replacement donors decreased over the period and eventually vanished in time.Conclusions: For a safe blood service in our country, where comprehensive laboratory tests are neither possible nor pragmatic, it is best to switch over to 100% voluntary donations, as it is now established that only voluntary non-remunerated regular donation is the safest. Thus, one of our key strategies to enhance blood safety is to focus on motivating non-remunerated blood donors and phasing out even replacement donors.

scholarly journals The Statistical Analysis of Factors Explaining the Intention of Public for Blood Donation in Jamshoro, Sindh

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Nazia Parveen Gill ◽  
Fozia Parveen Panhwar ◽  
Sunbul Naeem Cheema ◽  
Raja Muhammad Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donors ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Willingness To Donate ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
The Media

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine different factors explaining the intention of public in context of blood donation in the district of Jamshoro, Sindh. Methodology: The data were collected of 400 samples from four different tehsils of Jamshoro. The data was collected through well-structured questionnaire. The survey was conducted in 2019 and cluster sampling technique was used. The internal consistency of the questionnaire was examined, and Chi-Square test was applied for final analysis. Findings: The public's willingness to donate blood is limited, according to this study (χ2 (1) = 0.88, p=0.39). The media does not perform any significant role in awareness generating and educating the general public about the importance of donating blood (χ2 (1) = 24.35, p=0.001). Women make up a small percentage of blood donors in society (χ2 (1) = 0.05, p=0.82). This research also compares blood donors and non-donors based on gender and age. The contribution of blood donors in younger age was higher (χ2 (3) = 19.31, p=0.01) in males (χ2 (1) = 27.98, p=0.001). Conclusion: The awareness of blood donation was higher in males, higher education, and young age peoples (18-28) years. Furthermore, the awareness about blood donation should be made known through electronic and print media along with the educational programs at educational institutions. Blood bank lab assistants should be given training to keep up to date with the latest information on blood donation, samples, and screening tests.

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