Blood Donation Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices during COVID-19 Pandemic: Questionnaire-Based Study in Saudi Arabia

Table 8

Logistic regressions for perceptions as factors associated with blood donation adjusted by sociodemographic ().

Sociodemographic characteristics	Responses	Proportion (%)	value	OR	95% C.I.
Perceptions	Poor knowledge	150 (47.8)	1
	Good knowledge	164 (52.2)	0.001	0.426	(0.260-0.698)
Age group	15-19 years	58 (18.5)	1
	20-24 years	130 (41.4)	0.029	2.432	(1.735-2.790)
	25-29 years	30 (9.6)	0.729	1.190	(0.446-3.172)
	≥30 years	96 (30.6)	0.647	0.817	(0.344-1.939)
Gender	Female	62 (19.7)	1
	Male	252 (80.3)	0.000	8.527	(3.428-21.214)
Marital status	Married	88 (28.0)	1
	Single	226 (72.0)	0.955	1.021	(0.488-2.137)
Discipline	Health science field	167 (53.2)	1
	Other discipline	147 (46.8)	0.441	0.815	(0.484-1.371)
To identify whether perceptions associated with blood donation adjusted by sociodemographic, binary logistic regression analysis was used.

is significant.