Reactivation of Inactive Blood Donors

Effective Methods for Reactivating Inactive Blood Donors: a Stratified Randomized Controlled Study

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Blood Donor
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Telephone call; Other: SMS

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 11880
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• China
  • Guangdong
    • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510095
      • Guangzhou Blood Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 50 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Telephone group; 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.	Other: Telephone call; From 20 October to 10 November 2016, telephone calls were given to the donors in the phone call group
Experimental: SMS group; 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.	Other: SMS; Text messages were sent to an equal number of donors in the SMS group
No Intervention: Control group; No intervention will be giving to this group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Blood donation rate	Number of blood donors donate blood again divided by the number of participants in every group after intervened.	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-deferral reasons of not donating	The reasons of not donating again in the telephone group.	1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Guangzhou Blood Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 20, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 10, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): December 5, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 4, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 4, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): December 8, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 14, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 9, 2018
• Last Verified: November 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Guangzhou Blood Center

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No