Recruit Blood Donors Via SMS During Epidemic of COVID-19

Guangzhou Blood Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Donation

Treatments: Behavioral: blood donation SMS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04370886

Recruit Blood Donors via SMS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The fight against the spread of the 2019-nCoV epidemic has achieved some success in China, but the epidemic is far from over. A key factor making the epidemic under control in China is the government's call for social distance, which has led to few people going out for donation. As a result, the number of blood donors on the streets has been continuing to decline. Urgent recruitment of blood donors is therefore planned during the period from 30 April to 10 May via emergency recruitment SMS . This study has been designed to compare which information extraction frameworks would be more sensitive to blood donors in emergency situations.

Full description

Researches has showed that that the information extraction and processing in emergency was different from the normal situation. To understand what information the blood donors are more sensitive to in an environment that may pose a potential threat to themselves, this interventional study has been designed. Eligible blood donors in Guangzhou Blood Center has been randomly divided into four groups according to their sociological variables, their interval since last blood donation , their history donation times and the location of their last blood donation. Three groups of donors has been randomly selected as interventional groups, and will receive three kindly of emergency blood donor recruitment SMS respectively. The placebo group donors will only receive a May Day greeting SMS.

One blood donor recruitment SMS will emphasize what blood services will do to ensure the safety of blood donors during their donation in 2019-nCoV epidemic, one will shows information about a loss-based framework, while the third one will show information about a benefit-based framework .

Enrollment: 456,517 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• blood donors whose last turning up were between October 31, 2016 to October 31, 2019

Exclusion criteria

• Blood donors who were deferral by blood screening result and other situations. Blood donors who have indicated that they would not accept urgent recruitment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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456,517 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

SMS with safty ensurance

Experimental group

Description:

SMS content in this group will be about what blood services will do to ensure the safety of blood donors' life saving donation during 2019-nCoV epidemic

Treatment:

Behavioral: blood donation SMS

SMS with saving life call-1

Experimental group

Description:

SMS content in this group will be about calling the blood donors to a life saving donation

Treatment:

Behavioral: blood donation SMS

SMS with saving life call-2

Experimental group

Description:

SMS content in this group will be about calling the blood donors to a life saving donation

Treatment:

Behavioral: blood donation SMS

SMS with holiday greeting

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

SMS content in this group will be about holiday greeting of Labour Day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: blood donation SMS