Research Article

The Construct and Measurement of Perceived Risk of Nonremunerated Blood Donation: Evidence from the Chinese Public

Table 3

Literature comparison and verification.

Core categoriesSubcategoriesLiterature comparison and verification

Trust risk(1) Fear of blood waste in the process of usageChinese characteristic
(2) Fear of blood waste in the process of storageChinese characteristic
(3) Afraid of unprofessional nurses[19]
(4) Fear of using blood to make profit Chinese characteristic
(5) Afraid of excess of blood collection[12]; Chinese characteristic
(6) Fear of blood for other purposesChinese characteristic
(7) Fear of expensive blood for usageChinese characteristic
(8) Fear of bad service attitude[19]
(9) Fear of complicated preferential usage procedure of bloodChinese characteristic
(10) Suspicion about sterility of blood collection equipment[13]
(11) Privacy disclosureChinese characteristic
(12) The demand of blood is not really urgent[23]
(13) Blood collection agencies cannot be trustedChinese characteristic

Psychological risk(14) Depressing clinical setting[19]
(15) Feeling pain[9]
(16) Feeling nervous[10]
(17) Wasting time[16]
(18) Fearing physical examination before blood donation[13, 18]
(19) Fear of opposition from parentsChinese characteristic
(20) Friends had bad experience[24]
(21) Afraid of seeing needle[10]
(22) Fear of discovering illness[13]
(23) Not having enough blood for donation[12]; Chinese characteristic
(24) Spend money in regaining healthChinese characteristic
(25) Spend time in regaining healthChinese characteristic
(26) Afraid of seeing blood[17, 19]
(27) A dislike of the trouble from inconvenient location[12]; Chinese characteristic
(28) Feeling unbalance because of paid usage but unpaid donationChinese characteristic

Health risk(29) Infection resulting from unsanitary equipment[13]
(30) Infection resulting from unsanitary environmentChinese characteristic
(31) Infection resulting from shoddy equipmentChinese characteristic
(32) Infection resulting from improper disposal[19]
(33) Simple examination before blood donationChinese characteristic
(34) Long-term consequence to health[12]; Chinese characteristic
(35) Afraid of getting AIDS[14]
(36) Wrong blood cross matchingChinese characteristic
(37) Fear of being injured by the needle[6, 9]
(38) Experiencing adverse symptoms after blood donation[12]; Chinese characteristic
(39) Afraid of feeling dizzy in the process of blood donation [9]