Health Precaution | All N = 829 (%) | Domestic N = 644 (%) | International N = 185(%) | P-value* | OR (95%CI) |
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Sunscreen | 567 (68.4) | 466 (72.4) | 101 (54.6) | < 0.001 | 2.18 (1.6-3.1) |
Travel insurance | 492 (59.3) | 425 (66.0) | 67 (36.2) | < 0.001 | 3.42 (2.4-4.8) |
Pain medication (e.g. paracetamol or aspirin) | 476 (54.7) | 408 (63.4) | 68 (36.8) | < 0.001 | 2.98 (2.1-4.2) |
Avoided certain foods/tap water | 443 (53.4) | 386 (59.9) | 57 (30.8) | < 0.001 | 3.36 (2.4-4.8) |
First aid kit | 696 (49.1) | 347 (53.9) | 60 (32.4) | < 0.001 | 2.43 (1.7-3.4) |
Insect repellent | 371 (44.8) | 333 (51.7) | 38 (20.5) | < 0.001 | 4.14 (2.8-6.1) |
Vitamins (e.g. vitamin C or multivitamins) | 292 (35.2) | 200 (31.1) | 92 (49.7) | < 0.001 | 0.46 (0.3-0.6) |
Anti-diarrhoeal medication (e.g. Imodium) | 237 (28.6) | 207 (32.1) | 30 (16.2) | < 0.001 | 2.45 (1.6-3.7) |
Antibiotics | 184 (22.2) | 149 (23.1) | 35 (18.9) | 0.2 | - |
Condoms | 159 (19.2) | 137 (21.3) | 22 (11.9) | 0.004 | 2.00 (1.2-3.2) |
Anti-malarial medication | 106 (12.8) | 98 (15.2) | 8 (4.3) | < 0.001 | 3.97 (1.9-8.3) |
Vaccination card (with previous travel and non-travel vaccines) | 90 (10.9) | 76 (11.8) | 14 (7.6) | 0.1 | - |
Water purification kit | 37 (4.5) | 33 (5.1) | 4 (2.2) | 0.09 | - |
None of the above | 47 (5.7) | 24 (3.7) | 23 (12.4) | < 0.001 | 0.27 (0.2-0.5) |