ArticlePloS one2022
The impact of COVID-19 on blood donations.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Lessons learned from crises in blood donation services: A systematic review of operational practices.Vox sanguinis · 2026Pooled it
- Potential benefits of restrictive transfusion in upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Nursing Students' Knowledge and Motivations Regarding Blood Donation Following the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- COVID-19 impact on blood donation and blood product use in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025Article
- "Lord Knows What's Being Done with My Blood!": Black Women's Perceptions of Biospecimen Donation for Clinical Research in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Psychological Determinants of Blood Donation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2025Article
- Barriers to Engaging in Blood Donation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Nondonors and Lapsed Donors in a Chinese Community: A Critical Medical Anthropology Perspective.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Impact of Shelf-Life Extension on Platelet Availability: Results from an Inventory Management Modeling Study.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2024Article
- Changes in transfusion-transmissible infection prevalence and demographics among US blood donors during the COVID-19 pandemic.Transfusion · 2024Article
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- Research on the effectiveness and strategies of new media in promoting voluntary blood donation from a public health perspective in the post-pandemic era.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Impact of Digital Transformation on Blood Donation and Donor Characteristics.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2023Article
- Association Between Concerns About COVID-19 Infection and Blood Donation Intention: Cross-Sectional Survey Study Through a Mobile Communication Platform.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Patient blood management to minimize transfusions during the postpartum period.Obstetrics & gynecology science · 2023Article
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- Emerging Pathogen Threats in Transfusion Medicine: Improving Safety and Confidence with Pathogen Reduction Technologies.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- An update on red blood cell transfusion in non-cardiac thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Transfusion thresholds: the need for a patient-centered approach in hematologic disorders that require chronic transfusion therapy.Blood research · 2023Review
- Managing blood supplies during natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies, and pandemics: lessons learned from COVID-19.Expert review of hematologyReview
- Development of blood demand prediction model using artificial intelligence based on national public big data.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
During a crisis, society calls for individuals to take prosocial actions that promote crisis management. Indeed, individuals show higher willingness to help after a disaster. However, the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant differences as it is an ongoing crisis that affects all individuals and has the potential to pose a direct health threat to anyone. Therefore, we propose that the pandemic may also negatively affect willingness to help, specifically blood donation intentions. It requires a high level of willingness to donate blood beyond the crisis outbreak, as more blood will be needed when postponed surgeries resume. When comparing blood donation intentions from a pre-pandemic study to results from a six-wave (bi-weekly) panel study conducted in Germany during the first pandemic phase (April to June 2020), we find lower medium and long-term blood donation intentions. While active donors show increased awareness of ability and eligibility to donate at the beginning of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic, they feel significantly less able to donate as the pandemic progresses. Furthermore, inactive donors' perceived ability to donate significantly decreases in the pandemic phase compared to the pre-pandemic phase. Crucially, both active and inactive donors feel less responsible and less morally obliged to donate, resulting in an overall negative pandemic effect on blood donation intentions. The COVID-19 pandemic compromises blood donations endangering the life-saving blood supply. These alarming results offer evidence-based grounds for practical implications for driving donations in the event of a pandemic.
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