| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄餐旅大學 === 旅遊管理研究所在職專班 === 100 === Hemodialysis is the usual treatment for most of the patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in Taiwan, and the required weekly dialysis affects patient’s lifestyle, diet, work, as well as travel and leisure activities. The objective of this research is to investigate the important factors causing constraints for the actual participation of hemodialysis patients in overseas travel for dialysis.
This research adopts on-line questionnaire and collects cases through snowball sampling. The questionnaire is set up according to the Likert five-point scale. The consistency of information is gained through a cross-analysis of the acquired data from the questionnaire, public webpage analysis and the qualitative interview. Fifty-nine valid questionnaires are obtained from dialysis patients in Taiwan, with additional five from foreign dialysis patients.
In summary, this study indicated that the “structural factor” is the main constraint for dialysis patients to participate in overseas travel. The factor analysis reveals that the “concern for diet” is the primary factor, following with “traveling schedule,” “public reputation and recommendation,” “physical consideration,” “professional experience,” “medical hygiene,” “self-awareness of competence,” and “family support.”
The Research result shows that the joy and continuity of joining overseas travel, the same right to a usual life as ordinary people and traveling abroad like a normal person, as well as resting and obtaining new knowledge to broaden one’s horizon, both domestic and foreign dialysis patients give higher agreement after they participated in overseas travel. Dialysis patients who feel that their physical condition is good can usually control their medical condition and participate in overseas travel for dialysis. According to the questionnaire, 94.6% of the domestic dialysis patients are willing to join again overseas travel for dialysis. The result shows that overseas travel for dialysis is a tourism market worthy of further development. Based on the result of this research, the government, medical institutions, and operators in the tourism industry should devise certain practical suggestions and directions to improve the planning of tourism activities for dialysis patients.
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