Pre-travel health awareness and perceptions of voluntary airport PCR testing during COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in Okinawa, Japan
Awareness of voluntary airport screening measures was associated with greater self-reported pre-travel health awareness among voluntary testers. These findings may inform context-specific behavioral strategies aimed at promoting health-conscious travel during infectious disease outbreaks.
Authors
- Ryosuke Omori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-1459)
- Masahiro Kozuka
- Yusuke Shimakawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4198-4785)
- Ryota Matsuyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7296-0129)
- Kaoru Ogawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2461-4125)
- Tetsuharu Nagamoto
- Gerardo Chowell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2194-2251)
- Kenji Mizumoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2748-6560)
- Yining S. Xu
- Yoshihiro Takayama
- Yoshiro Shimoji
Institutions
- Okinawa University (JP)
- Institut Pasteur (FR)
- Georgia State University (US)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (JP)
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine (JP)
- Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital (JP)
- Institute of Bioinformatics (IN)
- Okinawa Prefecture (JP)
- Nagasaki University (JP)
- Rakuno Gakuen University (JP)
- Kumamoto University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IJID Regions
- Published
- 2025-11-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2025.100817
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.37