Korean Travelers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding the Prevention of Malaria: Measures Taken by Travelers Departing for India From Incheon International Airport

Yoo, Youk‐Jin; Bae, Go‐Oon; Choi, Jiho; Shin, Ho‐Chol; Ga, Hyuk; Shin, Sae-Ron; Kim, Mi Sook; Joo, Kyu‐Jin; Park, Chang‐Hae; Yoon, Hyun‐Jung; Baek, Heui‐Jin

doi:10.1111/j.1708-8305.2007.00157.x

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“…Travel medicine providers were particularly underutilized; only 25.5% of the travelers reporting having sought pre-travel consultations in the current survey. This finding is comparable to the rates that have been reported in similar studies [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]25]. Those traveling for leisure and for business were more likely to pursue health information than those traveling to VFRs.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Only 41.2% of Western that are ill following returning from Asian countries reported that they had a pre-travel visit [5]. Few other studies on the pre-travel health-seeking behavior of travelers to the Asia-Pacific region suggest that the proportion of Asian travelers who attend pre-travel consultations is even lower than that of Western travelers [14][15][16][17].…”

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confidence: 98%

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Vaccination and malaria prophylaxis among Greek international travelers to Asian destinations

Pavli

Silvestros

Patrinos

et al. 2015

Journal of Infection and Public Health

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confidence: 86%

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confidence: 98%

Vaccination and malaria prophylaxis among Greek international travelers to Asian destinations

Pavli

Silvestros

Patrinos

et al. 2015

Journal of Infection and Public Health

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“…This can be explained by hidden fears and the inability to cope with stress and risks. 27 Education provides better opportunities and skills to deal with risks, and that might decrease one's perception of endangering risks. However, gender, age, destination, and region-related travel experience had different impacts on the travelers' risk perception.…”

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confidence: 99%

Travel Health Survey: Risk Perception, Health-Seeking Behavior, and Subjective Evaluation of Travel Health Services in Egypt

El‐Ghitany¹,

Abdel‐Mohsen²,

Farghaly³

et al. 2018

Int J Travel Med Glob Health

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Introduction: Travel health practice and research in Egypt lag behind both needs and demands. This study was done in two parts to assess travel health knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among Egyptian travelers. Methods: This survey was conducted at the departure halls of Cairo International Airport and included 1500 travelers to Africa (excluding North Africa), Southeast Asia, and Latin America. An interview questionnaire was used to measure the KAP of travelers inquiring about different aspects of pre-travel health. Subjective evaluations of travel health services and suggestions for improvement were also solicited. Results: Travelers in this study were mainly males (89.3%), less than 40 years of age (82%), living in urban residences (89.1%), married (65.9%), university educated (83.3%), traveling for work (69.1%) with destinations of Africa (61.3%), Asia (28.4%), and Latin America (10.3%). They had poor travel-associated risk perception, and only 13.4% had risk management plan. Less than half (42.4%) sought information about their destination, and 11.9% sought health information; their source of information was mainly the internet (98.7%). The majority had poor scores on various travel-related practices, including seeking pre-travel health services (87.9%), receiving pre-travel vaccines (91.3%), and using malaria chemoprophylaxis (90.6%). The travel health services were rated good by 0.5% of travelers and bad, very bad, or undetermined by 11.4%, 61.3%, and 26.9% respectively. Conclusion: Egyptian travelers, although mostly educated, had poor travel health perceptions and practices and are unsatisfied with the travel health services in Egypt.

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“…There were 15 studies conducted in travelers recruited at airports [8,15e17,20,22,31e33,35e39,43,44] and one onboard flight [41], in Europe [8,15e17,32,37,39], Asia [20,33,36], Australia [36], US [22,38] and Canada [41] before flying abroad or at airports in Africa [31,35,43,44] and Asia [31] before flying back home. Thirteen studies included travelers recruited at travel clinics when seeking travel advice [7,9e12,14,23,24,28,29,34,40,42] in Europe [7,11,12,14,23,24,28,34,40], Australia [9], US [10], Canada [42] and Asia [29].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some studies combined several sources of recruitment [7,29,34]. A total of 14 studies focused on a group of selected infectious diseases, including notably malaria, hepatitis A and B and HIV infection [12,13,19,25,27,30,32,35e39,41,42]; 13 focused on malaria only [10,15,16,18,20,21,26,29,31,33,34,40,43,44], 2 on respiratory tract infections [9,24], 2 on influenza [22,23], 2 on rabies [28,45], and 1 each on Ebola [6], pneumococcal disease [7], hepatitis A [17], hepatitis B [8], infections transmitted through camel milk consumption [11] and Middle East respiratory syndrome [14]. Key findings are reported in Table 1 and show an overall underestimation of risks.…”

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Methodologies for measuring travelers' risk perception of infectious diseases: A systematic review

Sridhar

Régner

Brouqui

et al. 2016

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

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Numerous studies in the past have stressed the importance of travelers' psychology and perception in the implementation of preventive measures. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the methodologies used in studies reporting on travelers' risk perception of infectious diseases. A systematic search for relevant literature was conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. There were 39 studies identified. In 35 of 39 studies, the methodology used was that of a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) survey based on questionnaires. One study used a combination of questionnaires and a visual psychometric measuring instrument called the 'pictorial representation of illness and self-measurement" or PRISM. One study used a self-representation model (SRM) method. Two studies measured psychosocial factors. Valuable information was obtained from KAP surveys showing an overall lack of knowledge among travelers about the most frequent travel-associated infections and associated preventive measures. This methodological approach however, is mainly descriptive, addressing knowledge, attitudes, and practices separately and lacking an examination of the interrelationships between these three components. Another limitation of the KAP method is underestimating psychosocial variables that have proved influential in health related behaviors, including perceived benefits and costs of preventive measures, perceived social pressure, perceived personal control, unrealistic optimism and risk propensity. Future risk perception studies in travel medicine should consider psychosocial variables with inferential and multivariate statistical analyses. The use of implicit measurements of attitudes could also provide new insights in the field of travelers' risk perception of travel-associated infectious diseases.

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Korean Travelers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding the Prevention of Malaria: Measures Taken by Travelers Departing for India From Incheon International Airport

Abstract: There is an urgent need for increased awareness about travel-related infectious diseases (especially malaria) among Korean travelers, and they should be encouraged to seek pretravel health information.

Cited by 22 publications

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Vaccination and malaria prophylaxis among Greek international travelers to Asian destinations

Vaccination and malaria prophylaxis among Greek international travelers to Asian destinations

Travel Health Survey: Risk Perception, Health-Seeking Behavior, and Subjective Evaluation of Travel Health Services in Egypt

Methodologies for measuring travelers' risk perception of infectious diseases: A systematic review

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