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KMID : 0387720090200030167
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Korean Journal of Blood Transfusion
2009 Volume.20 No. 3 p.167 ~ p.176
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A Study on the Improvement of Blood Donor Health Questionnaire
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Kim Myung-Han
Jeon Mi-Jeong
Kim Sung-Bae
Kwon Seog-Woon
Kim Hyun-Gyung
Kim Suk-Il
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Abstract
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Background: For the safety of blood resources, the Blood Donor Health Questionnaire (DHQ) should be modified and improved allowing donors to answer questions with further accuracy. To accomplish this, it is essential to identify any part of this questionnaire that is donors find inconvenient.
Methods: The problems of the current DHQ were examined through a poll of donors at the Korean Red Cross and other hospital blood service centers from November 2008. We also compared the structure and contents of the Korean DHQ to similar document in eight other countries.
Results: Donors thought that the current DHQ was too complicated, took too much time (27.3%) and probed too much into a donors private life (51.2%), making it difficult to answer honestly. The Korean DHQ focuses on a deferral period and uses special medical terminology in order for an interviewer to make easy decisions regarding donor eligibility. In contrast, other questionnaires tend to focus on a donor’s recall of memory, use simple vocabulary, and emphasize donor’s duties, and therefore, these documents are easy for donors to understand and complete
Conclusion: Donor-oriented DHQs using simply terminology, help donors with memory recall and emphasize a donor’s duty. Also, such a document allows donors to answer frankly. Therefore donor-oriented DHQs provide a great degree of blood resource safety than interviewer-oriented DHQs. (Korean J Blood Transfus 2009;20:167-176)
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KEYWORD
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Blood donor, Questionnaire, Safety
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