From: Travelers’ health problems and behavior: prospective study with post-travel follow-up
Proportion of those contracting | AOR (95 % CI) for contracting illness among | ||
---|---|---|---|
illness among travelers with | travelers with the given risk factor in multivariable | ||
the given risk factor (%) | analysis with multiple imputations c | p-value | |
Gender | |||
male | 75 | 1.00 | |
female | 81 | 1.73 (1.03–2.91) | 0.040* |
Age, years b | N/A | 1.06 (0.994–1.14) | 0.076 |
Age, quadratic term b | N/A | 0.999 (0.998–1.00) | 0.018* |
Geographic region | N/A | ||
Europe, Northern America | 20 | 1.00 | |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 66 | 7.90 (1.66–37.6) | 0.009* |
Northern Africa, Western Asia | 67 | 11.9 (1.82–78.0) | 0.010* |
Southern Africa | 62 | 9.72 (1.85–51.2) | 0.007* |
Western Africa, Middle Africa | 79 | 15.5 (3.50–68.7) | <0.001* |
Eastern Africa | 84 | 18.5 (4.08–83.8) | <0.001* |
Eastern Asia, Central Asia | 56 | 6.41 (0.930–44.2) | 0.059 |
South-Eastern Asia | 87 | 21.2 (4.48–100) | <0.001* |
Southern Asia | 91 | 32.4 (6.24–168) | <0.001* |
Duration of travel, days b | N/A | 1.025 (1.00–1.05) | 0.048* |
Accommodation | N/A | ||
hotel | 68 | 1.00 | |
home of a local | 87 | 2.36 (0.922–6.06) | 0.073 |
guest house | 87 | 1.78 (0.940–3.36) | 0.077 |
Eating uncooked meat/fish | |||
did not eat uncooked meat/fish | 81 | 1.00 | |
ate uncooked meat/fish | 66 | 0.303 (0.147–0.625) | 0.001* |