Factors Related to COVID-19 Prevention Practices Among Thai Tourists
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COVID-19, Prevention, Tourist, ThaiAbstract
This descriptive research aimed to study COVID-19 preventive practices and to examine the relationship between predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors and COVID-19 preventive practices among tourists. The sample was 430 Thai tourists. Data were collected using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
The results demonstrated that the majority of the participants had a high level of overall COVID-19 preventive practices (66.5%). It was found that several factors had a low but statistically significant positive correlation with COVID-19 prevention behavior among tourists. These factors included 1) level of education (r = .182, p < .05), 2) average income (r = .205, p < .05), 3) travel expenses (r = .164, p < .05), 4) attitude (r = .195, p < .05), 5) perception of COVID-19 information (r = .266, p < .05), 6) social support (r = .095, p < .05), and 7) COVID-19 preventive measures (r = .155, p < .05). However, knowledge about COVID-19 demonstrated a statistically significant low negative correlation with COVID-19 prevention behavior (r = -234, p < .05).
The results of this study suggest that COVID-19 prevention among tourists will improve with positive attitudes, accurate information, social support, and proper measures. Relevant agencies should promote these factors to tourists to enhance proper disease prevention practices, which will ultimately help reduce the incidence and spread of COVID-19 infections among travelers.
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