[Current status of malaria control knowledge awareness of primary and sec- ondary school students in Xuzhou City].

OBJECTIVE

To understand the current status of malaria control knowledge awareness of primary and secondary school students and its influencing factors in Yunlong District, Xuzhou City, so as to provide the evidence for improving the malaria prevention work.

METHODS

A total of 800 students from 4 urban and rural primary and secondary schools were randomly selected and investigated with questionnaires.

RESULTS

The total awareness rate of malaria control knowledge was 61.27%, and the awareness rates of symptoms of malaria and malaria prevention were only 38.99% and 57.59% respectively. The main approach of obtaining the malaria control knowledge was media (51.52%). The univariate analysis showed that sex, area and different education levels affected the awareness rates of malaria control knowledge (P < 0.05), and the Logistic analysis showed that the awareness rate of malaria control knowledge of country students was lower than that of urban students (P < 0.05), and the awareness rate of malaria control knowledge of the secondary school students was higher than that of the primary school students (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS

The awareness rate of malaria control knowledge of primary and secondary school students in Yunlong District is lower than that required by the national standard. Therefore, the health education of malaria control should be strengthened, especially in countryside school students and primary school students.