[ Représentation sociale du don de sang au Togo: Étude descriptive portant sur les populations de Lomé ]
Volume 71, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 127–134
Atsu Dodzi Dom1, Kaka KALINA2, Adansikou Kouami3, and Konu Abra Mawufemo4
1 Institut National de Jeunesse et Sport de l’Université de Lomé, Togo
2 Psychologue clinicien, enseignant-chercheur, Institut National des Sciences de l’Education (INSE), Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
3 Département de Psychologie Appliquée. Université de Lomé, Togo
4 Département de Psychologie Appliquée. Université de Lomé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Several recent studies have aimed to identify and better understand the psychosocial factors that would make it possible to predict health-related behaviors. With this in mind, different psychosocial theories, such as the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980), the theory of interpersonal behavior (Triandis, 1980), the social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1982) and that of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1988, 1991) have been regularly applied. The application of these aforementioned theories for the study of social behaviors linked to health (Godin & al., 1996) is validated by a number of studies.In the same logic, realizing that despite the universal need for blood, access to it still remains difficult and very limited, the study of social representations of blood donation was essential to us.In order to explore and then determine the central and peripheral cores of social representations of blood donation among the populations of Togo, 122 subjects including 53 women and 69 men, using the simple random sampling technique, were interviewed. The evocation questionnaire and the interview made it possible to collect the data. The Evoc 2005 software allowed the processing of the information collected; The intergroup structural analysis of the data shows that the items: «save life», «help» and «serious illness» constitute the central elements of the social representations of blood donation. The populations surveyed have a fairly valued representation of blood donation; there is a real interest in blood donation among the population.
Author Keywords: social representation, blood donation, prototypical structural analysis, central elements, peripheral elements.
Volume 71, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 127–134
Atsu Dodzi Dom1, Kaka KALINA2, Adansikou Kouami3, and Konu Abra Mawufemo4
1 Institut National de Jeunesse et Sport de l’Université de Lomé, Togo
2 Psychologue clinicien, enseignant-chercheur, Institut National des Sciences de l’Education (INSE), Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo
3 Département de Psychologie Appliquée. Université de Lomé, Togo
4 Département de Psychologie Appliquée. Université de Lomé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Several recent studies have aimed to identify and better understand the psychosocial factors that would make it possible to predict health-related behaviors. With this in mind, different psychosocial theories, such as the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980), the theory of interpersonal behavior (Triandis, 1980), the social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1982) and that of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1988, 1991) have been regularly applied. The application of these aforementioned theories for the study of social behaviors linked to health (Godin & al., 1996) is validated by a number of studies.In the same logic, realizing that despite the universal need for blood, access to it still remains difficult and very limited, the study of social representations of blood donation was essential to us.In order to explore and then determine the central and peripheral cores of social representations of blood donation among the populations of Togo, 122 subjects including 53 women and 69 men, using the simple random sampling technique, were interviewed. The evocation questionnaire and the interview made it possible to collect the data. The Evoc 2005 software allowed the processing of the information collected; The intergroup structural analysis of the data shows that the items: «save life», «help» and «serious illness» constitute the central elements of the social representations of blood donation. The populations surveyed have a fairly valued representation of blood donation; there is a real interest in blood donation among the population.
Author Keywords: social representation, blood donation, prototypical structural analysis, central elements, peripheral elements.
Abstract: (french)
Plusieurs travaux récents ont visé à identifier et à mieux comprendre les facteurs psychosociaux qui permettraient de prédire les comportements liés à la santé. Dans cette optique, différentes théories psychosociales, telle la théorie de l’action raisonnée (Ajzen &Fishbein, 1980), la théorie des comportements interpersonnels (Triandis, 1980), la théorie sociale cognitive (Bandura, 1982) et celle du comportement planifié (Ajzen, 1985, 1988, 1991) ont régulièrement été appliquées. L’application de ces théories susmentionnées pour l’étude des comportements sociaux liés à la santé (Godin & al., 1996) est validée par nombre de travaux. Dans la même logique, réalisant que malgré le besoin universel en sang, l’accès en demeure toujours difficile et bien limité, l’étude des représentations sociales du don de sang nous est imposée. En vue d’explorer, puis déterminer les noyaux centraux et périphériques des représentations sociales du don de sang auprès des populations de Lomé. 122 sujets dont 53 femmes et 69 hommes, grâce à la technique d’échantillonnage aléatoire simple ont été enquêtés. Le questionnaire d’évocation et l’entretien ont permis de collecter les données qui qui ont subi l’analyse structurale prototypique grâce au logiciel Evoc 2005. L’analyse structurale intergroupe des données montre que les items: « sauver-vie«, « aider » et « maladie grave » constituent les éléments centraux des représentations sociales du don de sang. Les populations enquêtées ont une représentation assez valorisée du don de sang.
Author Keywords: représentation sociale, don du sang, analyse structurale prototypique, éléments centraux, éléments périphériques.
How to Cite this Article
Atsu Dodzi Dom, Kaka KALINA, Adansikou Kouami, and Konu Abra Mawufemo, “Social representation of blood donation in Togo: Descriptive study on the populations of Lomé,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 127–134, March 2024.
