Health and Safety Problems and Lack of Information among International Visitors Backpacking Through North Queensland

Peach, Hedley G.; Bath, Nicole E.

doi:10.2310/7060.2000.00071

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“…9 A need for more information on health and safety for tourists from abroad has been demonstrated previously. 10 It may be that public health and travel health providers are more reliably placed to educate the public and travelers, respectively, than the tourism and travel industry, which may not have the expertise to be responsible for this task. This needs to be further investigated.…”

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Reported Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behavior of Tourists and North Queensland Residents at Risk of Contact With Jellyfish That Cause the “Irukandji Syndrome”

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et al. 2004

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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International tourists had little knowledge about Irukandji. Thus, accurate educational messages may need to be targeted at this group. Offshore water sport and reef tour operators should be encouraged to provide clients with protective clothing to minimize the risk of stings. A coordinated educational response across northern Australia may be necessary to inform the public about both the box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) and Irukandji.

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“…9 A need for more information on health and safety for tourists from abroad has been demonstrated previously. 10…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reported Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behavior of Tourists and North Queensland Residents at Risk of Contact With Jellyfish That Cause the “Irukandji Syndrome”

Harrison

Leggat

Fenner³

et al. 2004

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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“…Young adults travel more extensively and participate in more rigorous activities, such as mountain climbing and skiing, compared to older age groups. They are at higher risk of injury, even though they consider themselves less likely to be injured while traveling [ 6 ]. Providing health information would be beneficial to both visitors and health care facilities in host countries, but we have not found any studies that address this.…”

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Japanese health and safety information for overseas visitors: a randomized controlled trial

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Introduction International travel to Japan increased steadily until the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Although international travel was curtailed worldwide due to the pandemic, the number of overseas visitors to Japan should increase again after the restrictions are lifted. We assessed the effect of a five-minute digital game on the knowledge of health information and the level of satisfaction with educational health resources of overseas visitors to Japan. Methods We conducted a randomized controlled trial among 1062 previous and potential visitors to Japan utilizing an internet portal. We recruited previous and potential visitors to Japan from the internet portal sites of the UK, the US and Australia. We randomly allocated participants to two groups: an intervention group that played an animated game and a control group that viewed an online animation. All participants answered a self-administered questionnaire online from March 16 to 19, 2021. We assessed visitors’ levels of health knowledge and satisfaction using the CSQ-8. We analyzed the data with a t test and the difference in differences test. Our RCT followed the SPIRIT guidelines. Results Of the 1062 previous and potential visitors recruited via the three countries’ internet portals (354 from each country), some had visited Japan previously (174 in the intervention group, 220 in the control group), while some were potential visitors to Japan (357 in the intervention group, 311 in the control group). Some had gathered health and safety information about Japan prior to this study (180 in the intervention group, 211 in the control group). Both groups improved their health information levels after the intervention. The level of satisfaction with health information in Japan was significantly increased in the intervention group (average difference of 4.5 points) compared to that in the control group (average difference of 3.9 points) (p < 0.05). Both groups’ mean CSQ-8 scores increased significantly after the intervention (p < 0.001): from 23 to 28 in the intervention group and from 23 to 24 in the control group. Conclusions Our study introduced unique educational strategies using an online game to provide health and safety information to previous and potential visitors to Japan. The online game was a more effective way to increase satisfaction than the online animation about health information. This study was registered in the UMIN-CTR (University Hospital Medical Information Network Center Clinical Trials Registry) as Version 1, and the trial registration data are available as UMIN000042483, 17/11/2020. Trial registration Trials UMIN-CTR (University Hospital Medical Information Network Center Clinical Trials Registry), UMIN000042483 (Japanese health and safety information for overseas visitors: A randomized controlled trial), 17/11/2020.

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“…There are three main concerns associated with the low level of health information accessed by overseas visitors to Japan. First, overseas visitors tend to be young adults and think they are not very likely to become sick while travelling, but they are at high risk for injury [5]. Only 18% (45 out of 241) of overseas visitors, with a median age of 30-39 years, accessed information about the Japanese health care system in our previous study [6].…”

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Japanese health and safety information for overseas visitors: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Background Before the COVID-19 pandemic occurred in January 2020, the number of overseas visitors to Japan had increased threefold over the last decade. To minimize the risk of health problems, visitors should be able to access information on the health care systems of the places they visit. Most short-term overseas visitors are young adults. Although they are not very likely to get sick from noncommunicable diseases, they are at high risk for injury and often experience stomach ailments, fever, or nausea when travelling. The objective of this study is to evaluate culturally and linguistically appropriate health information on preventive health behaviours and the health care system in Japan. We will examine the level of satisfaction of overseas visitors to Japan with health care-related educational materials using a five-minute digital game named Sa-Chan Japan. Methods Our study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We will assess both satisfaction and motivation before, during, and after the interventions and examine the changes over time. The intervention group will comprise overseas visitors who will view and answer questions in an animation named Sa-Chan Japan. The control group will comprise overseas visitors who will watch an English digital animation named Mari Info Japan. We will recruit 1002 participants through the Macromill Internet portal. We will contact overseas visitors who have either visited or wish to visit Japan from the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia. The participants will fill out a self-administered questionnaire online in the first quarter of 2021. We will determine the participants’ levels of satisfaction with the CSQ-8 (8-item Client Satisfaction Questionnaire). We will analyse the median score of the overseas visitors with both the Wilcoxon rank-sum and the Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. Our protocol of randomized controlled trials follows the SPIRIT guidelines. Discussion Our research will utilize unique digital education strategies in a game that promotes health and safety among overseas visitors to Japan. We believe the results of this study will be useful in overcoming the current challenges regarding pretravel health requirements for overseas visitors worldwide. Trial registration Version 1 of this trial was registered in the UMIN-CTR (University Hospital Medical Information Network Center Clinical Trials Registry), and the trial registration data are available on UMIN000042483, November 17, 2020.

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Health and Safety Problems and Lack of Information among International Visitors Backpacking Through North Queensland

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Reported Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behavior of Tourists and North Queensland Residents at Risk of Contact With Jellyfish That Cause the “Irukandji Syndrome”

Reported Knowledge, Perceptions, and Behavior of Tourists and North Queensland Residents at Risk of Contact With Jellyfish That Cause the “Irukandji Syndrome”

Japanese health and safety information for overseas visitors: a randomized controlled trial

Japanese health and safety information for overseas visitors: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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