Sex, sun, sea, and STIs: sexually transmitted infections acquired on holiday

Rogstad, K E

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7459.214

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“…A review [23] suggested that preventive advice should be given to all people going on holiday but particularly those going to the developing world, and young people especially should be encouraged to attend sexual screens after their holidays. In our study, none of the psychological scales included were related to the willingness to take health risks in the multivariate analysis.…”

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Willingness to Take Travel-Related Health Risks—A Study among Finnish Tourists in Asia during the Avian Influenza Outbreak

Aro

Vartti²,

Schreck³

et al. 2009

Int.J. Behav. Med.

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Background Health risk perception and behavior of tourists during epidemics is a challenge for behavioral medicine.Purpose The purpose was to analyze associations of psychosocial factors and willingness to take health risks on holiday and business trips. Method Subjects (survey n=338) were Finnish tourists visiting South-East Asia during the avian influenza epidemic of 2004. On holidays, 13.8%, and on business trips, 6.3% would take (rather) high risks, 14.1% reported having tendency to take health risks. Willingness to take health risks on both kinds of trips was lower among those +40 years old than those <40. Comparatively high risk-taking tendency and high perceived HIV risk were related to the increased willingness to take health risks on both kinds of trips. Results On holidays, willingness to take health risks was related to trust in fate, and on business trips, this was also related to trust in God and less precautionary behavior of avoiding hand shaking, but also to higher estimation of other risks in life. Conclusion Younger travelers and those on holidays are willing to take more health risks than those who are older or on business trips. Travel advice during epidemics could be differentially targeted to different age groups and to holiday and business travelers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Willingness to Take Travel-Related Health Risks—A Study among Finnish Tourists in Asia during the Avian Influenza Outbreak

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Vartti²,

Schreck³

et al. 2009

Int.J. Behav. Med.

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“…Tourists in other studies reported sexual intercourse in 5% (Cabada et al, 2003;Croughs et al, 2008), but the obviously younger population of medicine students of another study reported that 32% of them had new sexual partners while on holidays (Finney, 2003;Rogstad, 2004). Batalla-Duran et al (2003) reported about British tourists in Tenerife that 35% had sexual intercourse with a non-regular partner (Rogstad, 2004). Men (32%) were no different from women (39%), but the latter were more likely than men to have sex with non-British partners (43 versus 19%;Batalla-Duran et al, 2003;Rogstad, 2004).…”

Section: Sexual Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Batalla-Duran et al (2003) reported about British tourists in Tenerife that 35% had sexual intercourse with a non-regular partner (Rogstad, 2004). Men (32%) were no different from women (39%), but the latter were more likely than men to have sex with non-British partners (43 versus 19%;Batalla-Duran et al, 2003;Rogstad, 2004). With regard to our study, the result of this investigation that younger people (,26 years) were more likely to have a new sexual partner than those .25 years (50 versus 22%) should be pointed out.…”

Section: Sexual Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risks to Young Volunteers in International Social Projects

Martin

Rieke

Neppach

et al. 2011

The Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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Background: The number of young volunteers in international social projects has increased significantly with governmental and non-governmental project support. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the preventative medical advice currently given prior to departure is inadequate because the risk profile of young persons (<30 years) differs from that of the general population.Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed with participants of international social projects. A specific questionnaire was developed; inclusion criteria were age between 18 and 30 years at departure and a duration with the project of at least 6 months.Results: One hundred and fifty-three data sets could be evaluated. Fifty-three percent were females; the destinations were as follows: 65.4% to Asia, 14.4% to Africa, and 10.5% to Latin America. The mean age was 20 years. Ninety percent of the participants received some kind of advice in travel medicine prior to departure. The vaccination rate was quite good, but pertussis (13.7%), yellow fever (80%), typhoid fever (54%), and rabies (49.7%) should be improved when travelling to high-risk regions. Food is a very important potential source of problems as 66% receive catering by the project, 56.2% from street stalls, and 44% were regularly invited to dine with locals. In Africa, only two-thirds of the participants of projects had regular access to safe water and the sanitary facilities were also poor; 51.7% of respondents reported new sexual contacts (one to more than six new partners). In most cases, condoms were used, but there were two unintended pregnancies.Conclusions: We conclude that young people need to be targeted with specialized advice for health and safety while abroad. This should highlight age-specific risks compared to advice for a more general population. Vaccination status should be improved for some regions and diseases.

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“…If anything, the international comparisons are underplayed. The UK's comparatively low rates of HIV are highlighted, but the relatively high UK rates of STIs in European terms are not mentioned, nor is the increase in STIs acquired abroad, including resistant strains (Rogstad, 2004). But such factors were likely to be in policy makers' minds, as they were common currency for the sexual health policy community from which the Strategy 's steering group were drawn.…”

Section: The National Strategy For Hiv and Sexual Healthmentioning

confidence: 98%

‘We Do Not Use the Word “Crisis” Lightly …’

Evans¹

2006

Policy Studies

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Sex, sun, sea, and STIs: sexually transmitted infections acquired on holiday

Cited by 79 publications

References 13 publications

Willingness to Take Travel-Related Health Risks—A Study among Finnish Tourists in Asia during the Avian Influenza Outbreak

Willingness to Take Travel-Related Health Risks—A Study among Finnish Tourists in Asia during the Avian Influenza Outbreak

Risks to Young Volunteers in International Social Projects

‘We Do Not Use the Word “Crisis” Lightly …’

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