Perceived risk of watery diarrhea and dysentery and intended compliance with chemoprophylaxis among a deployed military population

BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases are a leading cause of morbidity among travelers to resource-limited regions and primary prevention is a cornerstone to risk reduction. Chemoprophylaxis has been successfully utilized for specific diseases. METHODS: We assessed self-reported compliance to daily chemop...

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Autores principales: Porter, Chad K., Felicione, Kristen, Tribble, David R., Armstrong, Adam W., Mostafa, Manal, Riddle, Mark S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-015-0009-2
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author Porter, Chad K.
Felicione, Kristen
Tribble, David R.
Armstrong, Adam W.
Mostafa, Manal
Riddle, Mark S.
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description BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases are a leading cause of morbidity among travelers to resource-limited regions and primary prevention is a cornerstone to risk reduction. Chemoprophylaxis has been successfully utilized for specific diseases. METHODS: We assessed self-reported compliance to daily chemoprophylaxis among deployed US military personnel. A 21 item self-completed questionnaire was completed by military personnel during mid-deployment. RESULTS: The perception of high disease risk was associated with an increased likelihood of compliance with daily chemoprophylaxis. However, 60 % of respondents stated they would not comply with a daily regimen. CONCLUSIONS: These data highlight the complexity of perceived risk and the difficulties with prophylactic interventions.
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spelling pubmed-55309072017-09-07 Perceived risk of watery diarrhea and dysentery and intended compliance with chemoprophylaxis among a deployed military population Porter, Chad K. Felicione, Kristen Tribble, David R. Armstrong, Adam W. Mostafa, Manal Riddle, Mark S. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines Research Article BACKGROUND: Infectious diseases are a leading cause of morbidity among travelers to resource-limited regions and primary prevention is a cornerstone to risk reduction. Chemoprophylaxis has been successfully utilized for specific diseases. METHODS: We assessed self-reported compliance to daily chemoprophylaxis among deployed US military personnel. A 21 item self-completed questionnaire was completed by military personnel during mid-deployment. RESULTS: The perception of high disease risk was associated with an increased likelihood of compliance with daily chemoprophylaxis. However, 60 % of respondents stated they would not comply with a daily regimen. CONCLUSIONS: These data highlight the complexity of perceived risk and the difficulties with prophylactic interventions. BioMed Central 2015-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5530907/ /pubmed/28883939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-015-0009-2 Text en © Porter et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Perceived risk of watery diarrhea and dysentery and intended compliance with chemoprophylaxis among a deployed military population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530907/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40794-015-0009-2
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