A5012885810- Blood donation and transfusion practices
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Blood transfusion and management
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Sex work and related issues
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
Finnish Red Cross
2018-2024
University of Eastern Finland
2019-2024
Finland University
2024
University of Helsinki
2018
Modern biomedical and genetic studies require large study cohorts; blood donors have been suggested to represent an appropriate group for recruiting healthy cohorts. The Blood Service Biobank (BSB) in Finland was recently established recruit willing give broad biobank consent. aim of the present is understand how bank context influences views on donating samples health data. We organised 61 interviews 10 discussions with current potential donors. Using qualitative content analysis, we...
BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of blood donors are recruited to participate in biomedical research. As services depend on voluntary donors, successful recruitment calls for a better understanding donors' expectations and attitudes toward the use samples STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Sixty‐one semistructured interviews were conducted with at eight Finnish Red Cross Blood Service donation sites Finland. The 10‐ 30‐minute included open‐ended questions about views patients Central motives donate...
This study examines how the institutional context informs ways in which healthy recipients relate to genomic information. Through focus group data, it considers trend of blood collection agencies (BCA) moving extend donor genotyping. We investigated receipt information is viewed as fitting into contract altruistic, voluntary donation by donors and non-donors. Our findings suggest that health principles this exchange with some limits. Participants considered practical value receiving...
Genomic testing is already used by blood collection agencies (BCAs) to identify rare types and ensure the best possible matching of blood. With ongoing technological developments, broader applications, such as identification genetic markers relevant donor health, will become feasible. However, perspectives donors (and potential donors) on routine genomic are under-researched.Eight online Focus Groups were conducted: four with non-donors. Participants presented three hypothetical scenarios...
In his influential study, “The Gift Relationship” [1970], Richard Titmuss coined the idea of voluntary, non‐paid, blood donation being gift life for a fellow citizen. This metaphor has been powerful in mobilising donors. It conveys direct relationship between and patients’ vitality, as well difference gains costs. As life, is seen to symbolise pure altruism promoting solidarity strangers. But can we apply successfully donating research? I interviewed group Finnish donors on what if FRC Blood...