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OBJECTIVE:To evaluate travel health knowledge, attitudes, and practices on vaccination and malaria prevention among Spanish travelers to the tropics. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was carried out in the departure lounge of the two main Spanish international airports in the summer of 2004. A questionnaire was administered to 1,206 Spanish citizens traveling to high-risk areas of tropical South America, 635 travelers (52.6%); Southeast Asia, 251 (20.8%); Sub-Saharan Africa, 181 (15.0%), and the Indian subcontinent, 139 (11.6%). Risk areas were defined according to published sources. Travelers were asked about their attitudes to travel vaccines and malaria prophylaxis and whether they had received either or both on this or previous trips. Adequate malaria prophylaxis was considered as the correct drugs for the destination as indicated by the World Health Organization. RESULTS:Fifty-eight percent of travelers were male and the mean age was 38 years. Thirty-six percent were traveling to tropical areas for the first time. The main reason for travel was tourism (82%) or business (12%). The mean time preparing the trip was 39 days; 73% looked for information a mean of 19 days in advance and 54% were advised in travelers' clinics. Fifty-five percent received no travel vaccines. A total of 48.1% of tourists and 30.1% of business travelers were vaccinated (p<0.00006). The most frequent vaccines administered were as follows: typhoid fever, 32%; yellow fever, 29%; tetanus-diphtheria, 24%; and hepatitis A, 14%. Malaria prophylaxis was taken by 422 travelers including mefloquine (44%), atovaquone-proguanil (17%), chloroquine (16%), chloroquine-proguanil (15%), doxycycline (3%), and unknown (5%). CONCLUSIONS:More than half of travelers to risk areas received no vaccinations before the trip. More than a third of travelers to Sub-Saharan Africa received no malaria prophylaxis.
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J Travel Medjournal_title
Journal of travel medicineauthors
Lopez-Velez R,Bayas JMdoi
10.1111/j.1708-8305.2007.00142.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-09-01 00:00:00pages
297-305issue
5eissn
1195-1982issn
1708-8305pii
JTM142journal_volume
14pub_type
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