Reactivation of Inactive Blood Donors

Guangzhou Blood Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Donor

Treatments: Other: Telephone call; Other: SMS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03366441

Guangzhou Blood Center

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 11,880 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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11,880 participants in 3 patient groups

Telephone group

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Telephone call

SMS group

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: SMS

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be giving to this group.