Abstract
To understand the health status and influencing factors of people in bathing beach after bathing. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the beach tourists in Hebei, Shandong and Shanghai Provinces from May to September, 2019-2020, including personal basic information, seawater/beach exposure in the last 7 days, beach activities, personal protective measures, physical health, related symptoms or diseases after bathing, etc. The seawater samples and sand of the three bathing beaches were sampled and detected. A total of 1222 valid questionnaires were collected. Skin infection(26. 19%), nasal congestion(12. 36%) and eye infection(8. 18%) were the most common symptoms of the tourist after seawater bath. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that previous physical discomfort(OR=0. 08-140. 73, 95%CI 0. 04-443. 64) was the common factor of all symptoms(P& lt; 0. 05), the risk factors of stomach cramps, eye infection, nasal congestion and sore throat were no wear of turbinate(OR=4. 65, 95% CI 1. 53-14. 08) and goggles(OR=541. 52, 95% CI 121. 58-2411. 85), swallowing seawater(OR=2. 29-79. 78, 95%CI 19. 83-296. 78) respectively(P& lt; 0. 05). Personal protective measures and physical conditions affect people& apos; s symptoms and diseases after bathing. There is microbial pollution in beach water and sand.
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