Sadawarte Deepika, Dakshit Kosturi, Sadawarte Mandar, Maria C, Yadav Vaishnavi
Department of Community Medicine, Seth G.S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Community Medicine, LTMMC and Sion Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2024 Dec;13(12):5643-5647. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_798_24. Epub 2024 Dec 9.
Traveller's health is one of the factors determining the success of his or her visit to the destination. The health aspects before, during and after travel are often neglected which may lead to untoward incidences during or after travel. Also, with the increase in national and international travel many emerging and re-emerging diseases are on the rise. This study was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge and practices of the travellers and to find out the need for travel health clinics.
A cross-sectional study among adults attending the Outpatient Department of International Travellers vaccination was conducted for 3 months. Data was collected regarding the awareness, knowledge and practices of 216 travellers by using a pre-validated interview schedule. Systematic random sampling was used to select these travellers. Analysis was performed after entering the data in Microsoft Excel and SPSS software wherein frequency percentages were calculated and the association was found between the awareness and felt need for a travel health clinic.
The purpose of most of the travellers was job-related, the majority being males. As the study was conducted in a yellow fever vaccination centre majority knew only this as a travel-related preventable disease condition. The awareness regarding travel-related diseases was found to be less and which led to a felt need by the travellers for pre-travel counselling with a doctor.
Travel medicine is an emerging area for health care providers and there is a felt need for a travel health clinic with the increase in the domestic as well as international travel.
旅行者的健康是决定其目的地之行是否成功的因素之一。旅行前、旅行中和旅行后的健康问题常常被忽视，这可能导致旅行期间或之后出现不良事件。此外，随着国内和国际旅行的增加，许多新出现和重新出现的疾病也在增多。本研究旨在评估旅行者的认知、知识和做法，并找出对旅行健康诊所的需求。
对在国际旅行者疫苗接种门诊就诊的成年人进行了为期3个月的横断面研究。通过使用预先验证的访谈问卷收集了216名旅行者的认知、知识和做法的数据。采用系统随机抽样法选取这些旅行者。将数据录入Microsoft Excel和SPSS软件后进行分析，计算频率百分比，并找出对旅行健康诊所的认知与感觉需求之间的关联。
大多数旅行者出行目的与工作相关，男性居多。由于研究在黄热病疫苗接种中心进行，大多数人只知道这是一种与旅行相关的可预防疾病状况。发现对与旅行相关疾病的认知较少，这导致旅行者感到需要在旅行前咨询医生。
旅行医学是医疗保健提供者的一个新兴领域，随着国内和国际旅行的增加，人们感到需要一家旅行健康诊所。
