Mass gatherings for sporting events, music shows, and religious needs continue to grow in our urban areas, requiring local authorities to develop safety procedures to mitigate the challenges of keeping the attendees safe. These challenges are even more pronounced at pilgrimage venues where social distancing and contact avoidance are difficult as pilgrims are required to perform various rituals in close proximity with others, in a sequential manner, either daily or weekly, as per their religious tenets. Over two million pilgrims attend the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia annually. Keeping the local and visiting pilgrims safe from crowd crush, sunstroke, skin infections, recurrence of prior medical issues, and contagious diseases requires the Saudi government to allocate huge investments for health communication and prevention programs every year. However, there is no evidence to date that has empirically tested whether Hajj pilgrims’ are able to receive such information and are subsequently adopting various health promoting behaviors. This study aims to do that by framing it within the Health Belief Model. Data collected and analyzed from 245 pilgrims in Makkah between September 9^th-19^th, 2017 suggests that roughly 48% of the pilgrims adopted all five protective measures. However, language barriers, limited health care facilities, and difficulties in purchasing prescription mediciens were cited as impediments to adopting healthy measures.The study concludes with recommendations for the KSA government agencies, Hajj authorities, Mission authorities and pilgrims, during various phases of travel-- i.e. pre-travel, during the pilgrimage and post-travel, in light of new emerging health threats.

在我们的城市地区，体育赛事，音乐表演和宗教需求的群众聚会不断增长，要求地方当局制定安全程序以减轻确保与会者安全的挑战。这些挑战在朝圣场所更为显着，在朝圣场所中，社交疏远和避免接触变得困难，因为朝圣者需要按照其宗教信条，以每天或每周的顺序依次与他人接近执行各种仪式。每年有超过200万朝圣者前往沙特阿拉伯朝圣。为了使本地朝圣者和朝圣者免受人群挤压，中暑，皮肤感染，先前医疗问题的复发和传染性疾病的侵害，沙特政府每年需要为卫生交流和预防计划投入大量资金。但是，迄今为止，尚无任何证据可以对朝j朝圣者是否能够接收到此类信息并随后采用各种健康促进行为进行经验检验。本研究旨在通过在“健康信念模型”中构建框架来做到这一点。9月9日之间从麦加的245名朝圣者收集并分析了数据2017年19月19^日至19^日，约有48％的朝圣者采取了所有五项保护措施。但是，语言障碍，有限的医疗保健设施以及购买处方药的困难被认为是采取健康措施的障碍。研究最后为KSA政府机构，朝j当局，宣教当局和朝圣者在旅行的各个阶段提供了建议， -考虑到新出现的健康威胁，在旅行前，旅行中和旅行后。