TY - JOUR AU - Rosuzeita Fauzi, AU - Nur Salma Jamaludin, AU - Noor Fathiah Ahmed, AU - Siti Khuzaimah Ahmad Sharoni, PY - 2022/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE (KAP) TOWARDS BLOOD DONATION AMONG E-PJJ DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS JF - The Malaysian Journal of Nursing (MJN) JA - The Malaysian Journal of Nursing VL - 13 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.31674/mjn.2022.v13i03.007 UR - https://ejournal.lucp.net/index.php/mjn/article/view/1407 SP - 47-52 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong> The shortage of blood in any hospital in every state is due to an increase in blood demand for severe critical injuries, with a fewer voluntary and limited number of replacement blood donors. The case is worst when there is a lack of voluntary blood donors. <strong>Objective:</strong> This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) towards blood donation among e-PJJ degree nursing students. <strong>Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 109 e-PJJ degree nursing students at UiTM Puncak Alam campus. Students who participated using purposive sampling (n=109) were asked to complete a set of self-administered questionnaires. Knowledge, attitude, and practice questionnaire were used to measure KAP towards blood donation. The association between knowledge and attitude was determined using Pearson correlation.  <strong>Results:</strong> The mean (SD) score for the level of knowledge towards blood donation is 15.59 (4.59) and for the attitude is 5.17 (1.03). Percentage of practice, 65 (59.6%) of the students said that they donate blood voluntarily, and just over half of the students, 103 (94.5%), reported that they are willing to become a regular donor. The level of knowledge has a significant positive correlation with the attitude towards blood donation (<em>r</em>=1.00, <em>p</em>&lt; 0.01). <strong>Conclusion:</strong> In general, most students in this study had good knowledge and a positive attitude towards blood donation. However, blood donation was still an unsatisfactory practise. A targeted approach to improving blood donation knowledge in this population should be implemented as one of the approaches to improve blood donation rates in the future.</p> ER -