Abstract：Background:China began active post-arrival monitoring of travelers (APMT) from Ebola impacted countries in August 2014. These travelers without febrile illness or symptoms consistent with Ebola in entry screening will be followed up daily by local health departments for 21 days from the date of their departure from West Africa. From October 30 to November 4, 2014, we conducted a survey in one district of Beijing to evaluate the implementation effect of APMT. Methods:Among the APMT systems at the district in Beijing, we recruited all travelers from Ebola impacted countries since August 16 to October 24. In the telephone-survey, we used a structured questionnaire to evaluated whether the subjects were maintain daily contacted by local health officials, whether the subjects did self-monitoring body temperature and the presence or absence of other Ebola symptoms every-day.Results:Total of 343 subjects was recruited at the telephone survey. 74.3% (255/343) couldn’t be interviewed because their phone numbers were missing or uncorrected in the APMT systems. Of 88 subjects who were contacted by phone call, 88% finished the interview. Among the 77 respondents, 74% had been informed of the self-health monitoring by local health department. 42 .3% (11/26) of foreign-responders who knew this policy compared to 90.2% (46/51) of domestic-responders (χ2=21, p<0.05). Of 57 responders who knew this policy, 28.1% had never measured body temperatures, 68.4% would report to the local health department if they developed fever during the monitoring period, 30% would go to hospital by themselves. Conclusion:Our findings indicated some weakness in implementation of APMT. We suggested strengthen the accuracy of the contact information and enhanced the communication to improve the compliance with APMT.
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