Helping unrelated strangers: Physical and psychological reactions to the bone marrow donation process among anonymous donors
Helping unrelated strangers: Physical and psychological reactions to the bone marrow donation process among anonymous donors
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb02726.x
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发表时间：
1996-03-16
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Dew, MA
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作者：
Switzer, GE;Simmons, RG;Dew, MA
开发预测志愿行动结果的模型对于管理大量志愿者的从业者来说非常重要。根据这一目标，生成了一个路径模型，将志愿者骨髓捐赠者的捐赠前特征与捐赠后的身体和心理反应联系起来。问卷数据收集自 343 名注册向无关陌生人捐献骨髓的个人，他们在三个时间点：捐献前不久、捐献后不久和捐献后 1 年。尽管捐赠者普遍对捐赠有积极的反应，但也有相当一部分捐赠者对捐赠感到矛盾，捐赠时身体出现困难，捐赠后出现负面心理反应。此外，我们的数据表明，即使考虑了其他捐赠者特征，捐赠前的矛盾心理也是捐赠后反应的主要预测因素。这些结果对志愿者的招募具有实际意义，并提出了在评估潜在骨髓捐赠者时应考虑的重要变量。
The development of models that predict outcomes of voluntary action is important for practitioners who manage large groups of volunteers. In accordance with this goal, a path model was generated linking predonation characteristics of volunteer marrow donors to postdonation physical and psychological reactions. Questionnaire data were collected from 343 individuals registered to donate marrow to unrelated strangers at 3 time points: shortly predonation, shortly postdonation, and 1-year postdonation. Although donors had generally positive reactions to donation, a substantial minority reported ambivalence about donating, physical difficulty with donation, and negative psychological reactions postdonation. In addition, our data suggest that predonation ambivalence is a central predictor of postdonation reactions, even after other donor characteristics are taken into account. These results have practical implications for the recruitment of volunteers, and suggest important variables to be considered in evaluating potential bone marrow donors.