Researchers from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of COVID-19 (Predicting the Willingness and Purchase of Travel Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2022 JUL 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on COVID-19 is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting from Bangi, Malaysia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This study explored the willingness and purchase of travel insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst working adults to ensure their safety and welfare through the lens of the theory of planned behavior.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia: “Primary data were gathered from 1,118 working adults across Malaysia and analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling. The study outcomes revealed that attitude toward travel insurance was significantly influenced by insurance literacy, perceived health risk, and health consciousness. The willingness of working adults to purchase travel insurance was highly influenced by attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral controls but unaffected by perceived product risks. The purchase of travel insurance was positively influenced by the willingness to purchase travel insurance.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “In fact, travel insurance literacy and perceived health risk should be emphasized amongst working adults to encourage them to purchase travel insurance policies for traveling abroad.”

For more information on this research see: Predicting the Willingness and Purchase of Travel Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022,10. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.907005.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Abdullah Al Mamun, UKM - Graduate School of Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. Additional authors for this research include Muhammad Khalilur Rahman, Qing Yang, Taslima Jannat, Anas A. Salameh, Syed Ali Fazal.

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