scholarly journals Evaluation of Factors affecting voluntary blood donation in South-South Nigeria: Focus on Akwa Ibom State

2021 ◽  
pp. 007-011
Author(s):  
Peters Grace Etete ◽  
Oko Nnabuike Inya
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The World

Background: The sudden increase in demand for blood transfusion globally without the corresponding increase in voluntary blood supply (donation) has become a serious health problem. Countries across the world are facing serious problem of blood scarcity. Therefore this study was carried out to evaluate the socio- cultural factors affecting voluntary blood donation in Akwa Ibom State. Methods: A survey research design was adopted for the study and was carried out from January to May 2017. Three hundred respondents were purposely selected for the study from the three Senatorial districts using simple random techniques. Data were collected, collated and analyzed into frequencies and percentages and were also presented in tables. Results: The findings of the study revealed that majority (91.5%) people have good knowledge of voluntary blood donation due to the level of awareness and also view the exercise as important even without reward (remuneration) from recipients despite the influence of some socio-cultural factors such as culture, religion among others. Conclusion: It was therefore concluded that socio-cultural barriers to voluntary blood donation still exist, thereby giving room for misconception. Therefore, there should be intensified health education using various methods including health workers, print media and community leaders on the benefit of voluntary blood donation. This will help to correct some misconceptions on blood donation as there are people who still believe in the dictates of their religious and cultural practices as it relates to blood donation and its attendant health implication.

Socio-cultural Factors affecting People Living with HIV/AIDS Attendance at Hawassa and Yirgalem Hospital ART Clinics, South Ethiopia. Quantitative and Qualitative Mixed Approach.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alemante A Ayalew ◽  
Zeytu G Asfaw ◽  
Solomon A Lemma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Complete Healing ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
The World ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract Background: HIV/AIDS pandemic seriously ravaged the world for the past three decades. It left the world with full of complicated social, economic and political problems. The problem has continued as major health problems for most developing countries, including Ethiopia. Socio-cultural practices which are predominantly determining the life of most of these peoples have structured the spread of HIV/AIDS. The aim of this study was to investigate how socio-cultural factors are affecting patients' adherence at ART clinics in Hawassa and Yirgalem Referral Hospitals. Methods: Qualitative and quantitative designs were used to collect the data. Results: The findings have shown that for fear of stigma and discrimination at family and community levels forced patients' affected adherence at ART clinics. People living with HIV were forced to travel long distance to get rid of social exclusion and isolation that resulting in drug interruptions and drop outs. The findings have also shown that most of the followers of protestant religion make believe that HIV could be cured and boycotted them from taking ART drugs. Moreover, confidentiality of information about HIV positive children living with care givers and newly tested patients found to be resistant to start or continue their drugs. Sense of wellbeing elicited form long term ART drugs effects made patients to imagine complete healing thereby dropping their treatment. Conclusions: The findings made clear that multidimensional socio-cultural factors structure and restructure adherence problems at the ART clinics in the study hospitals. Interventions targeting to change socio-cultural factors play crucial roles to prevent and control new infections, occurrence of drug resistant strains, and social and economic repercussions in the society.

scholarly journals The Gayonese Culture of Marriage System: The Islamic Law Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Ridwan Nurdin ◽  
Muhamad Yusuf ◽  
Syarifah Sharah Natasya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Family Resilience ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

This research explores the Gayonese culture of marriage through an analytical view of the Islamic law. There has been a shift in marriage system in the Gayonese society, in which the Juelen and the Angkap, the two formerly known systems shifted to Kuso Kini. This is an empirical research using the law historical approach to allow the author restropectively explore the construction of law and its shift from time to time.  The data was gathered through an in-depth analysis of the literature and semi-structured interviews of the community leaders. The findings suggest that marriage systems are shifting and the Gayonese communities do not problematize this transformation. In fact, they are not in the position to force their children to adopt both the Juelen and the Angkap marriage system. This is so, since most communities in the present times prefer Kuso Kini marriage system to the other two. The Kuso Kini marriage system gives freedom for spouses to decide where they should stay, either with their parents or find their own living. This shift in marriage system is the result of cultural intermingled, in which some non-Gayonese migrated to the Gayonese Island and brought with them their own cultural values. The same is true to the Gayonese communities migrating to places beyond the Gayonese Island. It is therefore believed that a shift in marriage system is a must as the world today allow people across different cultural values to integrate with each other. The integration for sure gives changes to a certain cultural value. However, changes in cultural practices do not result in cultural-religious clashes. In fact, it is expected that the changes contribute to the family resilience and the marriage cultural system, the Kuso Kini, prevails.

scholarly journals Compliance with the Informed Consent to Blood Transfusion: Constraints and Physic for the Developing Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Joseph Aondowase Orkuma ◽  
George N. Ayia ◽  
Mernan Roselynda Ikwue ◽  
Joseph Ojobi ◽  
Gomerep Samuel Simji
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Quality Health Care

The informed consent to blood transfusion is a patient centered care where the health care provider is ethically obliged and legally compelled to disclose the details, alternatives and consequences of a procedure such as blood donation or transfusion and obtain from the patient a prior consent before it is carried out. However, this newly evolving practice is largely constrained in many developing countries of Africa and this study sought to identify constraints and advance remedies. Literature search on PubMed, PubMed Central, Google Scholar, and African Journal on Line (AJOL) as well as print material literatures where applicable was used to retrieve 66 publications whose contents met the criteria for inclusion into the study. Constraints range from nondisclosure or defective disclosure, knowledge gaps of health care providers and non-comprehension of consent-based information by patients, illiteracy, religious and cultural practices, poor funding and administrative bottlenecks like non provision of consent forms or consent-based information materials as well as weak structures of effective oversight for compliance of health institutions by governmental regulating agencies. Physic like deployment of contentious professional development (CPD) activities for different professionals, focused training on consent-related guidelines, public awareness and education on prevailing social, religious and cultural impediments, research and localization of institution specific challenges. Additionally, proactive economic policies like the deployment of insurance indemnity covers for healthcare workers with negligent liabilities in order to dissuade health care providers from practicing defensive medicine which is inimical to quality health care delivery. There is a need for more researches on constraints prevalent in each developing country in Africa for a more appreciable advancement of the practice.

Blood groups

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Irina Anatolievna Olefir
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Blood Groups ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Blood Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
Nobel Prize Laureate

On June 14, 1868, Karl Landsteiner, an outstanding scientist, known for his works in the field of immunohematology and immunochemistry, who received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of blood group systems in 1930, was born in a Viennese family. In 1900, Karl Landsteiner published a work in which he described in detail the process of agglutination that occurs when the blood plasma of one person is mixed with the red blood cells of another one. At that time, the scientist came to the conclusion that this phenomenon was of an immunological nature. In 1901, Landsteiner decided to divide human blood into three subgroups: A, B, and C; a little later, the AB group was added to them, while the C group was renamed as O. In addition, it was Landsteiner who invented a fairly simple scheme that allows developing and introducing the basic principles of blood transfusion into wide practice, and the world got a wonderful opportunity to save hundreds and thousands of human lives. Thanks to this discovery, made more than 100 years ago, more than 100 million donations are made every year around the world, more than half of which are in developed countries with high living standards and incomes. Here people come to blood donation deliberately, and not for the sake of receiving financial or any other benefit. Thanks to blood transfusion, it became possible to successfully carry out many surgical interventions accompanied by the loss of a large amount of blood, exchange blood transfusion for hemolytic disease of newborns, and substitution therapy for many pathological conditions. Karl Landsteiner’s work was highly appreciated: in 1930, due to the discovery of blood groups, he became the Nobel Prize laureate in the field of medicine.

scholarly journals Social-Cultural Factors Affecting Child Marriage in Sumenep

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainur Mila Rofika ◽  
Iswari Hariastuti
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Background: Child marriage is still common in Indonesia both in urban and rural areas. One of possible causes is socio-cultural background. In Madura, the community still stick to culture and customs. Child marriage, one of among others, has become Madurese culture and legalized custom that was inherited to this day as seen in Pagarbatu Village, Sumenep. Objective: The study analyzed the effect of socio-cultural factors on the occurrence of child marriage to girls. Method: This study used a descriptive research design with a qualitative approach. It took place in Pagarbatu Village, Saronggi Sub-District, Sumenep District. The research subjects were women under the age of 18 who engaged in child marriages. Data were collected from April to May 2018. Results: The results showed that socio-cultural factors affect misconduct practices that leads to child marriage, especially among girls. Misconduct practices in child marriage are arranged marriages, age manipulations, witchcraft practices. Child marriage becomes a reason to ease family’s financial burden and also to keep tracing lineage to early ancestors. Religious beliefs are still strong in Madurese community. When females were tranced, they would be married for such mystical experience to get out of trance. Besides, there were other factors of child marriage, such as the lack of community leaders’ roles (village officials), the lack of health workers’ roles, age, education, knowledge, and family economy. Conclusion: There is a relationship between social and cultural factors with child marriage.

scholarly journals Blood Donation Tested by Coronavirus Pandemy 2019 (Covid-19) in Cote d’Ivoire

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-102
Author(s):  
Kambe Kambé Yves ◽  
Hyda Jules ◽  
Diabate Songui
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Sampling Site ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Transfusion Center ◽  
The World ◽  
Blood Transfusion Service ◽  
Blood Transfusion Center ◽  
Communication And Coordination

The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (covid-19), which spread rapidly around the world, has disrupted all organizations and led to a decline in their productivity. Their reorganization was therefore essential. The purpose of this study was to analyze the resilience strategies adopted by the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) to reverse the trend of population participation. Thus, based on the qualitative approach centered on free interviews conducted with 30 people including 27 managers of Blood Transfusion Establishments (Blood Transfusion Center (BTC), Blood Transfusion Antenna (BTA) and Sampling Site (SS)), 2 heads of department (Communication and Coordination of services), the chairman of the scientific advisory council and a direct observation, of the theory of resilience and the systemic method, the analysis of the data indicates that the resilience strategies adopted by the NBTS are four: the dynamic communication on blood donation, rational blood using, the reorganization of blood collections in fixed site (Sundays and extension of the collection time) and the reorganization of mobile collections (fragmentation of mobile collection activities on site).

Dynamics of the detection rate for infectious diseases during blood collection from donors in Russia and factors affecting it

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
E. Grozin ◽  
R. Devlikamov
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Detection Rate ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Research Systems

A study on the detection of infectious diseases during blood donation in Russia was carried out with the aim of explaining the actual problems of blood collection, its safety and benefits, statistical data and implementation of research systems. The authors reviewed the literature from modern domestic and foreign sources. Characteristic of the detection rate for infectious diseases is presented on the basis of their analysis. Causes of such diseases during blood transfusion are determined, preventive measures, methods of working with donors are described.

scholarly journals INCULTURATION: BLENDING CHRISTIANITY INTO LOCAL CULTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robinson bin Benedict Mugok ◽  
Elena Chai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Traditional Belief ◽  
The World ◽  
Liturgical Inculturation ◽  
Gospel Message

As Christianity seeks to spread its mission around the world, they face cultural barriers in a way that Christianity is not always easily acceptable to the non-European settings due to the differences in values and cultural practices. In order to cope with such challenges, the churches established inculturation and equivalent policies in evangelizing and minister the non-western communities worldwide. In Kampung Bungan Besar, Matu, a Melanau-populated village, Christianity at the present time is the main religion alongside with the minority practitioners of traditional belief. The growing of Christianity from a totally ‘foreign’ religion to the main religion among the Melanau can be associated with the missionary efforts, and it is the inculturation process that ensured the triumph of the mission. Liturgical inculturation and object-centered inculturation is the most obvious two inculturation strategies used in spreading of the gospel message among the Melanau.

scholarly journals The influence of social and cultural practices on maternal mortality: a qualitative study from South Punjab, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Omer ◽  
Rubeena Zakar ◽  
Muhammad Zakria Zakar ◽  
Florian Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Maternal Care ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Maternal Healthcare ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Abstract Background A disproportionately high rate of maternal deaths is reported in developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Much of this is associated with social and cultural factors, which form barriers to women utilizing appropriate maternal healthcare. A huge body of research is available on maternal mortality in developing countries. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature on the socio-cultural factors leading to maternal mortality within the context of the Three Delays Model. The current study aims to explore socio-cultural factors leading to a delay in seeking care in maternal healthcare in South Punjab, Pakistan. Methods We used a qualitative method and performed three types of data collection with different target groups: (1) 60 key informant interviews with gynaecologists, (2) four focus group discussions with Lady Health Workers (LHWs), and (3) ten case studies among family members of deceased mothers. The study was conducted in Dera Ghazi Khan, situated in South Punjab, Pakistan. The data was analysed with the help of thematic analysis. Results The study identified that delay in seeking care—and the potentially resulting maternal mortality—is more likely to occur in Pakistan due to certain social and cultural factors. Poor socioeconomic status, limited knowledge about maternal care, and financial constraints among rural people were the main barriers to seeking care. The low status of women and male domination keeps women less empowered. The preference for traditional birth attendants results in maternal deaths. In addition, early marriages and lack of family planning, which are deeply entrenched in cultural values, religion and traditions—e.g., the influence of traditional or spiritual healers—prevented young girls from obtaining maternal healthcare. Conclusion The prevalence of high maternal mortality is deeply alarming in Pakistan. The uphill struggle to reduce deaths among pregnant women is firmly rooted in addressing certain socio-cultural practices, which create constraints for women seeking maternal care. The focus on poverty reduction and enhancing decision-making power is essential for supporting women’s right to medical care.

scholarly journals COVID-19 mortality rate in Russia: forecasts and reality evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Lifshits ◽  
Natalia Neklyudova
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Developed Countries

COVID-19 is an extremely dangerous disease that not only spreads quickly, but is also characterized by a high mortality rate. Therefore, predicting the number of deaths from the new coronavirus is an urgent task. The aim of the study is to analyze the factors affecting COVID-19 mortality rate in various countries, to predict direct and indirect victims of the pandemic in the Russian Federation, and to estimate additional mortality during the pandemic based on the demographic data. The main research method is econometric modeling. Comparison of various data was also applied. The authors' calculations were based on data from the RSSS, the World Bank, as well as specialized sites with coronavirus statistics in Russia and in the world. A predictive estimation of the deceased number of people due to the pandemic in Russia was made. It is confirmed that the deaths proportion of the completed cases of the disease depends on the level of testing. It is shown that the revealed mortality of the disease depends on the proportion of completed cases, on the population age structure, and on how early the pandemic entered the country compared to the other countries. It is determined that the number of additional deaths due to the coronavirus is approximately 31 thousand people. The analysis revealed that the relatively low proportion of COVID in Russia is the result of a special approach to the cause of death determination. The mortality rate in Russia in April 2020 was about 3% higher than in April 2019. The share of the deceased health workers in the total coronavirus mortality in the Russian Federation is higher than in the developed countries, which indicates an underestimation of the data on COVID- 19 deaths in the Russian Federation, and the unsatisfactory quality of the Russian healthcare system. The number of direct and indirect victims of the pandemic in the Russian Federation at the end of July was approximately 43 thousand people.

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