Providing Japanese health care information for international visitors: digital animation intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 24 million international visitors came to Japan in 2016 and the number is expected to increase. Visitors could be at a risk of illness or injury that may result in hospitalization in Japan. We assessed the effects of a four-minute digital animation titled Mari Info Japan on the level of anxiety experienced by international visitors to Japan.

Methods

We conducted a non-randomized, controlled study at Narita International Airport outside Tokyo in December 2014. On the first day, we recruited international visitors for the intervention group at predetermined departure gates and, the following day, we sampled visitors for the control group at the same gates. We repeated this procedure twice over 4 days. The intervention group watched the digital animation and the

SUBMITTER: Nishikawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963085 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature