Study on mastery situation of knowledge about infection diseases among primary and middle school students in Chongqing / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the mastery situation of the knowledge about common infectious diseases among the prima-ry and middle school students,in order to provide the evidence for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.Methods The stratified random cluster sampling method was adopted.The survey was performed by the questionnaire form.The data were analyzed by the Chi square test,logistic regression model in the SPSS17.00 statistical software.Results Among the primary and middle school students in Chongqing,the students mastering 75% of the basic knowledge about infectious diseases accounted for 24.6% of the total respondents (P<0.01).From the view of the distribution of disease entities,the top six diseases with the awareness rate of less than 60% were hepatitis B,bacterial dysentery,cholera,measles,pinworm and rabies respectively(P<0.01), whose awareness rates are under 60%(P<0.01).As for the level of mastery among different grades,the senior middle school students had a better knowledge of tuberculosis,flu,SARS,AIDS,hepatitis B,poliomyelitis,etc(P<0.01).Comparatively,the pri-mary school students grasped the knowledge of hand-foot-and-mouth disease and pinworm better(P<0.01).Conclusion The pri-mary and middle school students have a low awareness rate of infectious diseases.Pertinently strengthening the popularization of the knowledge about infectious diseases is the powerful measure for reducing the occurrence of infectious diseases and promote the healthy development of students.