TY - THES ID - 134601355 TI - A Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices related study about blood donation of lycee studentsin Tambacounda city : behaviour comprehension as a start line for sensitizing campaigns AU - Salmon, Idris. AU - Sociale School Heverlee PY - 2018 PB - Heverlee Sociale School Heverlee DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134601355 AB - Senegal, a low income country (LIC) with a human development index (HDI) of only 0.494 and ranked on position 164 of the HDI rank is a developing country with problems in various sectors such as the health sector (UNDP, 2015). One problem in the Senegalese health sector is the lack of a sufficient and safe blood supply. 6.1 blood donations per 1000 inhabitants is the national average which is well below the 10 needed to obtain auto-sufficiency (CNTS, 2018; WHO, 2010b). One possible strategy to reach auto-sufficiency is to raise people’s awareness about blood donation (WHO, 2010b). Here, a knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) based study about blood donation of lycee students in Tambacounda city was executed providing data that is usable for such sensitizing campaigns. 254 lycee students were questioned and a focus group was gathered. The majority (48%) of the lycee students in Tambacounda never donated blood but are willing to do it. 21% of the students donated already blood of which one third lost the desire to donate. Belief in myths and experience of fainting events are the reason for quitting blood donation. Furthermore, 35% of the students belief in myths and knowledge about blood donation is relatively poor. Subpopulation tuned national sensitizing campaigns should be executed in order to recruit, educate and re convince donors with the aim to reduce mortality due to temporarily empty blood stocks. Keywords: KAP, Tambacounda, blood donation, myth belief, sensitizing campaigns ER -