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Many are evolving screening procedures from those that defer all who have had a sexual interaction with gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) to an approach that assesses individual donors' recent sexual risk behavior with any partner.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Study Design and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A representative sample of current blood donors (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u20091194) was recruited online and randomized to complete either the existing (at the time of the study)\u00a0Canadian Blood Services' donor questionnaire (DQ) that screens out those with recent gbMSM sexual experience, a modified donor questionnaire (MDQ) that assesses individuals' recent sexual behavior with any partner, or an MDQ that assesses individual sexual behavior with any partner and explains why these questions are asked. Respondents were asked for their perceptions concerning difficulty, comfort, and acceptability of these screening questionnaires.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Across experimental conditions, current donors regarded screening questionnaire difficulty to be low; discomfort in responding was minimal; screening questionnaires were perceived to be relatively inoffensive and justified, and very few donors would cease donating if the screening questionnaire they responded to became the one in general use. Some minor sex differences were observed, and in some cases, perceptions of the MDQ with explanation were somewhat more positive than those of the DQ and MDQ without explanation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>An individual risk behavior screening approach appears to be acceptable to current blood donors as an alternative to screening out all who have recently engaged in gbMSM sexual interactions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/trf.17241","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,13]],"date-time":"2023-01-13T18:30:01Z","timestamp":1673634601000},"page":"531-540","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Alternatives to blood donor deferral of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: Acceptability of screening the sexual risk behavior of all blood donors"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"63","author":[{"given":"William A.","family":"Fisher","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Western University  London Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Taylor","family":"Kohut","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology Western University  London Ontario Canada"},{"name":"Institut de Recherche en Sciences Psychologiques Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain  Louvain\u2010La\u2010Neuve Belgium"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5871-9881","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyunjin","family":"Woo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto  Toronto Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4009-5705","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jennie","family":"Haw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Donation Policy and Studies Canadian Blood Services  Ottawa Ontario Canada"},{"name":"Department of Health Sciences Carleton University  Ottawa Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_8_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/vox.12623"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/trf.14445"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/trf.16930"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1503\/cmaj.071333"},{"key":"e_1_2_8_6_1","unstructured":"FisherWA HofkirchnerA O'BrienS KohutT.Exposure to blood donor screening questionnaire creates unintentional bias against men who have sex with men and fails to identify individuals who practice HIV transmission sexual risk behaviors. 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