A Comprehensive Travel Health Education for Tour Guides in Bali, Indonesia

Summary

This is a field trial with a randomized pre-test post-test control group design. This trial is the second phase of an exploratory mixed methods research. Prior to this trial, a qualitative study through in-depth interviews to tour guides from 11 language divisions and also policy makers of Indonesian Tour Guide Association Bali branch (HPI Bali). The education model for tour guides were developed based on the integration of theory of planned behavior (TPB) and identity theory. This educational model is expected to improve the behavior of tour guides in providing travel health information to tourists they serve, which is currently still lacking. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the measurement of behavior can not be conducted. Therefore, this trial aims to test the efficacy of the comprehensive education model to improve the indirect and direct determinants of the behavior namely attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, role identity, actual behavioral control and behavioral intention.

The research hypothesis are:

1. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the attitude of tour guides towards providing travel health information to tourists?
2. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the subjective norms of tour guides towards providing travel health information to tourists?
3. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the perceived behavioral control of tour guides in providing travel health information to tourists?
4. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the role identity of tour guides as a travel health promoter for tourists?
5. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the actual behavioral control of tour guides in providing travel health information to tourists?
6. The comprehensive travel health education model improves the intention of tour guides to provide travel health information to tourists?

Conditions

• Behavior, Health
• Travel-Related Illness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comprehensive Travel Health Education Model

The comprehensive travel health education model consists of: 1. Online training: 10 hours (2 days) online education via Zoom. The topics that will be delivered during the training includes: * The potential roles of tour guides in tourists' health, * The importance of travel health information for tourists, * Assessment of tourist's health risks, * Prevention and first aid of various travel health problems Topics related to tour guides will be delivered by the tourism experts, while topics related to travel health will be provided by travel medicine experts, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University. Participants will also receive a travel health guide book. 2. Weekly travel health Information sharing through WhatsApp group for 2 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Udayana University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ni Made Sri Nopiyani, MD, MPH · Udayana University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

54 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-09-01

Primary Completion

2021-12-31

Completion

2022-01-31