Personal infection prevention behaviors and campaign to encourage travel during COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Go To Travel campaign in Japan was launched to subsidize travel and accommodation costs for tourists through vouchers that could be used at domestic destinations. Infection prevention behavior can lead to refraining from travel owing to infection concerns; conversely, taking preventive action can promote travel. There is a lack of information about the association between infection prevention behaviors and desire to travel. During a pandemic of infection, there is the difficult challenge of balancing the promotion of infection prevention behavior with economic revitalization. Thus, we examined the relationship between personal infection prevention behaviors and using Go To Travel.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study of 26,637 workers who responded t

SUBMITTER: Shimoda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9929176 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature