Blood donation:-knowledge,attitude and practice of medical and non-medical students in Superior University Lahore

Aim: to examine the knowledge,attitude and practice of blood donation in medical and non-medical students of superior university raiwind road lahore. methodology: after the approval of ethical institutional review committee a total of 160 medical and non-medical students were included in this study. non probability convenient sampling technique was used. data was collected on a structured questionnaire. the data was entered in version 21 of spss and analyze by use of statistical tools. results: out of 160 students 83(51.9%) were medical and 77(48.1%) were non-medical students. a clear majority of 81(98%) medical students and only 32(42%) of non-medical student have knowledge about blood transfusion. both 56(67%) of medical and 55(71%) of non-medical students have same attitude about donating blood in future. conclusion: findings of this research showed that both medical and non-medical students have same knowledge about their blood group but medical students have preference about the knowledge of blood transfusion because of their medical background.