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

ABSTRACT:

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 int

SUBMITTER: Nishikawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10283307 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature