Moderator’s Guide of Questions for Focus Groups with Sen

Department of Health and Human Services OMB Approved

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Control No. 0920-0932

Expiration Date 07/31/2018

Attachment C – Moderator’s Guide of Questions for Focus Groups with Sending Agencies

1. How many international trips you have worked with (coordinated) in the past year?

2. What regions do you primarily organize trips for (e.g. Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, North America)?

3. Which type of trips do you help organize: long-term or short-term trips? Do you organize trips for large or small groups? How does coordination of these types of trips differ? How is it the same? In what type of accommodations have missionaries stayed in during the trips?

4. How often do you provide travel health and safety information to your volunteers?

5. Where do you most often go when looking for travel health information? (ex. travel health clinic, general medical doctor, CDC website, general travel guides, etc.)

6. If you have visited CDC’s website to seek travel health information, how would you describe this site?

7. What about the site was easy to use? What was difficult to use? What would you like to see changed?

8. How comfortable do you feel providing health and safety information to your volunteers? How informed (confident) do you feel when providing health and safety information to your volunteers?

9. How often do you refer your volunteers to a travel health clinic for more specific information?

10. If CDC were to produce some educational materials intended for short-term mission groups, would you or your organization be interested in distributing them to your volunteers? What format would you find most useful? (ex. brochures, posters, email templates).

11. Would you personally be interested in learning more about travel health recommendations for popular destinations? How would you most like to receive this information? Do you think you would share this information with your volunteers?

12. What sort of health and safety recommendations do you make for volunteers traveling to the Caribbean? Southeast Asia?

13. What do you know about diseases that are carried by mosquitoes?

14. Have you ever heard of dengue fever? What do you know about dengue fever?

15. Have you ever heard of chikungunya fever? What do you know about chikungunya fever?

16. Do you give your travelers advice on how to avoid mosquito bites? What do you tell them specifically? Do you think these measures are effective?

17. Do you receive reports from your volunteers about illness? Would you be interested in receiving reports from your volunteers about illness? How could volunteers report illness to you?

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