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NCT Number: NCT02646059

The Effective Ways of Recruiting Lapsed Blood Donors: a Stratified Randomized Pilot Study

Blood donor recruitment is an important issue in every country, since the blood supply pressure become more and more intense. Donor retention is even more important, because it is easier to recruit an old customers than a new one. Therefore, figuring the most effective ways of recruiting lapsed blood donors and understanding the reasons of not donating blood again is critical and vital for the development of blood donation.

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Key information

Conditions

Blood Donor

Age range

18 year–50 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Guangzhou Blood Center

Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510095, China

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Donated blood at least once between 2009 to 2013, and the blood test result is qualified.

Exclusion criteria

  • Having donated again before intervened.

Treatment and study plan

Text message

Other

Text messages would be sent via the messaging platform of Guangzhou Blood Center. The feedback of sending status (received, failed to receive, or unknown) would be marked on every number. Four to six months follow-up, blood donation rate would be checked.

Telephone

Other

Status (response, no answer, line issue, wrong number or refused to be interviewed) of every donor in this groups would be marked. Four to six months follow-up, blood donation rate would be checked.

Primary outcomes

  1. Blood donation rate

    Time frame: four to six months

    Number of blood donors donate blood again divided by the number of participants in every group after intervened.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Reasons of not donating again

    Time frame: 1 months

    The reasons of not donating again in the telephone group.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Guangzhou Blood Center

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2015
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Jan 5, 2016
Registry last updated
Aug 1, 2017

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