Table 3.
Demographic characteristics of donors reporting referral by a healthcare professional among the HIV (+), IDM (−) and deferred donors at four blood centers in Brazil.
| Characteristic | Eligible approved |
Deferred at donation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV(+) |
IDM (−) |
Referred n (%) | Not Referred n (%) | p value | |||||
| Referred n (%) | Not Referred n (%) | p value | Referred n (%) | Not Referred n (%) | p value | ||||
| Gender | |||||||||
| Female | 4 (9.3) | 55 (18.5) | 1 (9.1) | 234 (30.1) | 83 (17.7) | 750 (21.5) | |||
| Male | 39 (90.7) | 243 (81.5) | 0.147 | 10 (90.9) | 543 (69.9) | 0.165 | 385 (82.3) | 2744 (78.5) | 0.063 |
| Age group | |||||||||
| 40 + | 8 (18.6) | 67 (22.5) | 2 (18.2) | 235 (30.2) | 51 (11.0) | 467 (13.4) | |||
| 31–39 | 17 (39.5) | 74 (24.8) | 0.155 | 5 (45.5) | 229 (29.5) | 0.263 | 83 (17.9) | 677 (19.4) | 0.538 |
| 26–30 | 6 (14.0) | 71 (23.8) | 0.542 | 2 (18.2) | 127 (16.3) | 0.541 | 89 (19.1) | 725 (20.8) | 0.528 |
| 18–25 | 12 (27.9) | 86 (28.9) | 0.748 | 2 (18.2) | 186 (23.9) | 0.816 | 242 (52.0) | 1613 (46.3) | 0.051 |
| Race | |||||||||
| White | 16 (45.7) | 129 (49.1) | 5 (50.0) | 384 (55.4) | 128 (33.2) | 1193 (38.1) | |||
| Black | 8 (22.9) | 56 (21.3) | 0.760 | 3 (30.0) | 129 (18.6) | 0.432 | 82 (21.2) | 588 (18.8) | 0.081 |
| Mixed | 8 (22.86) | 56 (21.3) | 0.760 | 2 (20.0) | 144 (20.8) | 0.939 | 170 (44.0) | 1295 (41.4) | 0.103 |
| Asian/Indian | 3 (8.6) | 22 (8.4) | 0.888 | 0 | 36 (5.2) | … | 6 (1.6) | 52 (1.7) | 0.869 |
| Educational Level | |||||||||
| College or more | 4 (9.5) | 54 (18.2) | 0 | 162 (20.9) | 41(8.8) | 596 (17.1) | |||
| High school | 28 (66.7) | 202 (68.0) | 0.260 | 10 (90.9) | 549 (70.9) | 252 (54.0) | 1971 (56.4) | <0.001 | |
| Elementary school or less | 10 (23.8) | 41 (13.8) | 0.057 | 1 (9.1) | 63 (8.1) | 0.232 | 174 (37.2) | 927(26.5) | <0.001 |
| Marital status | |||||||||
| Single/never married | 27 (62.8) | 169 (56.7) | 4 (36.4) | 293 (37.8) | 324 (69.5) | 2398 (68.7) | |||
| Married/living together | 14 (32.6) | 99 (33.2) | 0.730 | 6 (54.5) | 437 (56.3) | 0.993 | 107 (23.0) | 799 (22.9) | 0.940 |
| Separated/divorced/widowed | 2 (4.6) | 30 (10.1) | 0.250 | 1 (9.1) | 46 (5.9) | 0.680 | 35 (7.5) | 296 (8.5) | 0.479 |
| Donation history | |||||||||
| Repeat | 21 (48.8) | 137 (46.0) | 8 (72.7) | 581 (74.8) | 142 (30.3) | 1340 (38.3) | |||
| First-time | 22 (51.2) | 161 (54.0) | 0.725 | 3 (27.3) | 196 (25.2) | 0.877 | 326 (69.7) | 2154 (61.7) | 0.001 |
| Donor type | |||||||||
| Community | 27 (62.8) | 208 (69.8) | 7 (63.6) | 532 (68.5) | 237 (50.6) | 1950 (55.9) | |||
| Replacement | 16 (37.2) | 90 (30.2) | 0.355 | 4 (36.4) | 245 (34.5) | 0.733 | 231 (49.4) | 1541 (44.1) | 0.033 |
Answers not significant for all groups (p > 0.05): marital status.