Abstract:
The objective of this Analytical cross-sectional study was to examine relationship between demographic characteristics and factors, i.e., predisposing factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors and determining predictive factors yellow fever prevention behaviors of Thai people travelling back from yellow fever infected countries at Suvamabhurni airport. PRECEDE Framework was applied to be the conceptual framework. Purposive sampling technique was used as sample consisting of 3 95 persons. The questionnaire used was self-administered questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was higher than 0.70. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics. Relationship was analyzed using Pearson 's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The findings from the study showed that predisposing factors, namely, purposes of travelling, age, income, knowledge about yellow fever, perception of severity of yellow fever, perception of risks of yellow fever, enabling factors, i.e. access to travel medicine services and access to laws about prevention of yellow fever, reinforcing factors like recommendation from public sector officers and intonation receiving were related to yellow fever prevention behaviors with statistical significance (p<0.05). Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that the factors predicting yellow fever prevention behaviors by 20.2°/o (R2= 0.202, F = 22.592, p-value = 0.001), i.e., access to travel medicine services and access to laws about prevention of yellow fever, reco1111nendation from public sector officers and information receiving, purposes of travelling. It was suggestion tl1atyellowfeverpreventionbehaviors should be promoted among Thai travelers. E1nphasis should be placed on access to and an increase intravel medicine services and travel services more and more to ensure travelers have knowledge about yellow fever, infom1ation and epidemic situation of yellow fever