Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate the cognitive status about blood donation of soldiery in Beijing, in order to provide suggestions for blood donation promotion and social participation enhancement. MethodsAccording to the self-designed Soldiery Blood Donation Knowledge Questionnaire, we randomly selected 2000 soldiery in Beijing from different units of administering and made the research anonymous. Finally sorting out 1 207 copies of questionnaire with integrate content. ResultsSoldiery has a higher degree of participating in blood donation, blood donors accounted for 72.5% (875/1 207). The number of soldiers supporting blood donation reached 90%. 57.3% soldiers chose to participate actively when receiving an urgent need of blood information. In the knowledge of blood donation, it was more comprehensive that donors shall use blood for free, blood donation would contribute to the society and would not hazard health as well as other aspects (the awareness rate is higher (P<0.05)); but 53.9% (651/1 207) in the staff did not understand that blood donation will not be disease-contagious. The main access of blood donation related knowledge receiving is television, newspapers, publicity activities and hospital. Network knowledge accounted for only 6.2%.ConclusionThe soldiery cognitive of blood donation is unbalanced. There is a demand for different subdivision publicity ways to improve the recruitment strategy. Efforts to establish a long-term mechanism of voluntary blood donation is also critical.

Key words: Beijing, Soldiery, Voluntary, blood, donation, Cognition