Reactivation of Inactive Blood Donors

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Blood Donor
• Interventions: Other: Telephone call; Other: SMS

• Registration Number: NCT03366441
• Lead Sponsor: Guangzhou Blood Center

Brief Summary

Blood donor retention is a critical strategy to ensure the safety and sufficiency of clinical blood supply. An effective strategy can prevent donors from lapsing and eventually becoming inactive.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-10-20
• Primary Completion: 2017-11-10
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-04
• Study Completion: 2017-12-05
• Study First Posted: 2017-12-08
• Status Verified: 2018-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-11-09
• Last Update Posted: 2018-11-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 11880

Inclusion Criteria

• Donated blood at least once between Januanry 1 to September 30 2016, and the blood test result is qualified.

Exclusion Criteria

• Having donated again before intervened.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Telephone group	Telephone call	The telephone group received telephone calls. All non-response and refusing donors were included for further follow-up. Donors who answered the phone call and agreed to be interviewed were asked the reasons why they had stopped donating according to a pre-designed questionnaire. All of the responsed donors were re-recruited by altruistic appeal.
SMS group	SMS	The SMS intervention group received the following text message:"Dear donors, Thank you for your donation through which your love brought hope to those helpless patients and your donated blood reignited the fire in their lives. If you can, please consider donating blood again to save a life. Thank you again for your support!" . All donors either receiving or not receiving the message were included for further follow-up.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Blood donation rate	1 year	Number of blood donors donate blood again divided by the number of participants in every group after intervened.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-deferral reasons of not donating	1 day	The reasons of not donating again in the telephone group.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Guangzhou Blood Center; 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China