Cargando…
Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy
The objectives of this investigation were to examine the travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about travel-related diseases and to evaluate the factors that influence their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. A cross-sectional study was performed between May and September 2018 among a rando...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Public Library of Science
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30978211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215252 |
_version_ | 1783410474320134144 |
---|---|
author | Adou, Abdoulkader Ali Napolitano, Francesco Vastola, Alessandra Angelillo, Italo Francesco |
author_facet | Adou, Abdoulkader Ali Napolitano, Francesco Vastola, Alessandra Angelillo, Italo Francesco |
author_sort | Adou, Abdoulkader Ali |
collection | PubMed |
description | The objectives of this investigation were to examine the travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about travel-related diseases and to evaluate the factors that influence their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. A cross-sectional study was performed between May and September 2018 among a random sample of individuals attending randomly selected travel agencies in the geographical areas of Caserta and Naples, Italy. One fourth of participants (25.6%) had a poor level of knowledge, 50.2% a moderate, and only 24.2% a good level about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country. Those who had received information from physicians about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and who do not need additional information were significantly more likely to have a good level of knowledge. A large majority (91%) showed no concern about the risk of getting an infectious disease during the travel. Almost half of the respondents had received information concerning the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and the related prevention measures. This information was more likely acquired by those graduated, those who know the foods that can cause the infectious diseases, and those who self-perceived a well health status, and less likely by those who had a poor level of knowledge about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and who were going to Asia and South America. Education and communication activities regarding all aspects of travel-related diseases are needed to increase the knowledge and the access to preventive measures. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6461267 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Public Library of Science |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-64612672019-05-03 Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy Adou, Abdoulkader Ali Napolitano, Francesco Vastola, Alessandra Angelillo, Italo Francesco PLoS One Research Article The objectives of this investigation were to examine the travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about travel-related diseases and to evaluate the factors that influence their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. A cross-sectional study was performed between May and September 2018 among a random sample of individuals attending randomly selected travel agencies in the geographical areas of Caserta and Naples, Italy. One fourth of participants (25.6%) had a poor level of knowledge, 50.2% a moderate, and only 24.2% a good level about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country. Those who had received information from physicians about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and who do not need additional information were significantly more likely to have a good level of knowledge. A large majority (91%) showed no concern about the risk of getting an infectious disease during the travel. Almost half of the respondents had received information concerning the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and the related prevention measures. This information was more likely acquired by those graduated, those who know the foods that can cause the infectious diseases, and those who self-perceived a well health status, and less likely by those who had a poor level of knowledge about the most common infectious diseases in the destination country and who were going to Asia and South America. Education and communication activities regarding all aspects of travel-related diseases are needed to increase the knowledge and the access to preventive measures. Public Library of Science 2019-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6461267/ /pubmed/30978211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215252 Text en © 2019 Adou et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Adou, Abdoulkader Ali Napolitano, Francesco Vastola, Alessandra Angelillo, Italo Francesco Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title | Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title_full | Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title_fullStr | Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title_short | Travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in Italy |
title_sort | travelers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to infectious diseases in italy |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30978211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215252 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT adouabdoulkaderali travelersknowledgeattitudesandbehaviorrelatedtoinfectiousdiseasesinitaly AT napolitanofrancesco travelersknowledgeattitudesandbehaviorrelatedtoinfectiousdiseasesinitaly AT vastolaalessandra travelersknowledgeattitudesandbehaviorrelatedtoinfectiousdiseasesinitaly AT angelilloitalofrancesco travelersknowledgeattitudesandbehaviorrelatedtoinfectiousdiseasesinitaly |