Table 4.

Attitudinal Influencing Factors of Blood Donation Practice Among Health Care Providers of Public Hospitals, Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia, July 2022 (N = 419)

Variables	Category	Controls (%)	Cases (%)	X2
				Pearson’s	Df	p-value
What do you think about blood donation?	Good	89.94	95.93	4.23	1	0.040
	Bad	10.05	4.1
What do you think is the best source of blood donation?	Voluntary	75.3	69.92	1.37	1	0.242
	I do not know	24.73	30.08
Any family member or close friend who ever needed blood transfusion?	Yes	56.25	78.05	18.54	1	0.000
	No	43.75	21.95
Any family member or close friend who donates blood?	Yes	50.8	65.85	8.41	1	0.004
	No	49.2	34.15
Is blood donation harmful to donor?	Yes	13.31	9.76	1.07	1	0.3
	No	86.7	90.24
Should patient relative be asked to donate?	Yes	50.81	55.3	0.74	1	0.390
	No	49.2	44.7
Do you encourage relatives to donate?	Yes	69.56	73.2	0.57	1	0.448
	No	30.43	26.83
Have you donated blood	Yes	0	100
	No	100	0
What motivates you to donate blood	Aware of the lack of blood supply		58.54
	Health benefits		45.53
	Existence of an involved blood donor		13.82
	Family members		14.63
Where you was donate blood	Regional blood bank Bahir Dar district		100
Reasons for not donated blood?	Lack of info
	Yes	13.31	8.13	2.34	1	0.126
	No	86.7	91.87
	Lack of opportunity
	Yes	64.94	47.15	12.21	1	0.000
	No	35.05	52.84
	Lack of time
	Yes	11.41	1.63	10.82	1	0.001
	No	88.6	98.3
	Fear of Anemia
	Yes	41.85	4.06	60.10	1	0.000
	No	58.15	95.93
	Religious
	Yes	5.7	1.63	3.44	1	0.064
	No	94.3	98.3
Blood group type?	Do not know	14.67	3.25	19.03	4	0.001
	A	24.45	20.32
	B	20.65	43.95
	AB	10.87	13
	O	29.35	28.45
Willingness to donate blood in the future	No	32.33	17.07	12.09	1	0.001
	Yes	67.66	82.93
Overall Attitude	Unfavorable	21.73	12.19	5.38	1	0.020
	Favorable	78.26	87.80