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ArticleTransfusion medicine (Oxford, England)2022

Designing and testing an ethnic-ancestry question for Australian blood donors: Acceptability, feasibility, and understanding.

Luke Gahan, Carley N Gemelli, Sarah P Kruse, Tanya E Davison

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Article in Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Equity in blood transfusion precision services.International journal for equity in health · 2024
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Luke GahanSchool of Social Sciences and Humanities, La Trobe University, Melbourne.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3012-2530
Carley N GemelliClinical Services and Research, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Melbourne.
Sarah P KruseClinical Services and Research, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Melbourne.
Tanya E DavisonClinical Services and Research, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Melbourne.

Funding

Australian governments fund Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe aimed to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and understanding of a donor ethnic-ancestry question with Australian blood donors.

backgroundEthnic-ancestry assists blood collection agencies to meet the demand for rare blood-types. However, there is no standard ethnicity question used by health/blood services around the world and we do not know how blood donors in Australia will respond to being asked for this information. METHODS/MATERIALS: A survey and ethnic-ancestry question was administered to a sample of donors (n = 506) to evaluate their views on being asked for their ethnic-ancestry, test a comprehensive ethnic-ancestry list, and determine the level of information required by donors.

resultsDonors reported being very comfortable providing their ethnic-ancestry and the majority of donors found an ethnic-ancestry option they were happy with (91.3%). Overall donors reported a high level of understanding of why ethnic-ancestry was important to blood donation. However, when provided more information on why ethnic-ancestry is required, donors reported increased understanding.

conclusionThe findings from this study demonstrated that it is acceptable and feasible to introduce a comprehensive ethnic-ancestry question for Australian blood donors. We also found that a greater understanding is achieved when a more comprehensive explanation for inclusion of the question is provided.

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Blood DonorsEthnicityAustraliaFeasibility StudiesHumansSurveys and Questionnairesblood donorsethnic-ancestryethnicity

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PMCPMC9320970

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