| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 95 === The aim of this study is to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of traveler diarrhea (TD) among Taiwanese international travelers who are going abroad. Moreover, several analytical approaches deriving from data workup toward knowledge, attitude and practice for the travelers will be conducted.
The study was a cross-sectional design; the status of TD related KAP were investigated by self-developed questionnaire. According to the distribution of travel destination of Taiwanese international travelers, by Quota setting and followed by arbitrarily sampling method to complete the questionnaire at departure hall of major international airport in Taiwan. Questionnaire will be self-administered, and checked for completeness and validated by interviewer. Totally there were 480 samples, 391(81.5%) of which were valid. The answered questionnaires were collected and analyzed by SPSS software for windows version 14.0. The statistical methods implemented hereinafter including Frequency, Percentages, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s posterior comparisons, Trend analysis, Pearson’s correlation...etc. And the main results could be concluded as follows:
1. Only 31.5% of travelers could answer TD risk of their traveler destination correctly, obviously for the lack of knowledge of risk for their travel destination.
2. The average rate of correctness in TD related knowledge was 77%. Knowledge of TD related prevention be scored the highest, and the risk factor was on the contrary. Therefore, the knowledge of risk factor was insufficient.
3. The mean value of TD related attitude was 3.72. It showed the overall attitude of TD is positive. But the item of “it’s inconvenient to pay extra attention on food well-done or not” and “unable to have the delicious foreign food makes me disappointed” were scored more negative.
4. The average score of TD related practice were between 3.5-4.6. “Behavior of symptoms management” and “avoid the drink with unknown ice cube” both got a lowest score in practice.
Traveler’s diarrhea related KAP will be affected by lots of traveler’s background related variables. Travelers with higher education and social economic status performed a better result in knowledge and attitude. Better KAP performing in travelers usually be linked with professional background. With a less technique or non-technique laborers performed lower score in TD related KAP. Travel responders had sought for travel health advice prior to departure would result in better attitude and practice scores. Travelers using internet to seek travel health related information got a better score in knowledge than other travelers.
Based on the results of this study, several folds of suggestions could be proposed. 1. Reinforce the TD related information system; 2. Reinforce accessibility of multiple channels for more travel health related information; 3. Use leaflet and brochure to diffuse related information, especially through travel agency or airport.
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