An analysis of blood donation barriers experienced by North American and Caribbean university students in Grenada, West Indies.

Objectives: To estimate the associations of nationality, university program, donation history and gender, with blood donation barriers experienced by non-donating students on the day of a campus blood drive. This project focused particularly on nationality and the effect of the different blood donation cultures in the students' countries of origin.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of 398 North American and Caribbean university students was conducted at St.