ArticleTransfusion2025
Openness about sexuality predicts deferral policy noncompliance among recent MSM (men who have sex with men) blood donors: An exploratory analysis.
Article in Transfusion, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundBlood service providers use deferral policies to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections, but policy effectiveness depends on donors' honesty in disclosing risk behaviors. Identifying specific social factors within men who have sex with men (MSM) may provide insight into noncompliance with sexual behavioral deferral criteria.
methodsWe identified a sample of 136 recent blood donors from a large behavioral surveillance survey of MSM in New Zealand. Univariate analyses were used to identify factors associated with self-reported noncompliance before a two-step hierarchical regression assessed whether MSM-related social factors added to the prediction of noncompliance, compared to only considering background characteristics.
resultsIncorporating the MSM-related social factors significantly enhanced the model fit, explaining 23.2% additional variance in noncompliance (Nagelkerke R
conclusionThis exploratory evidence suggests that blood service providers should consider the broader social context, particularly openness about sexuality, in understanding noncompliance with time-based sexual behavior donor deferral criteria. This "outness" in MSM donors likely reflects confidence in making disclosure decisions based on their perceived HIV risk, challenging the notion that noncompliance necessarily arises from discomfort or lack of knowledge about policies. Future research should explore the gap between perceived risk and policy understanding to better address MSM donors' complex decision-making processes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.