Zeng Yuan, Li Feifei, Liang Wei, Liu Yinyue, Zou Zhiyong, Baker Julien S, Dong Yanhui, Ma Jun, Hu Jie, Yang Yide, Dong Bin
Changsha Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha, 410001, China.
Key Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410006, China.
BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 1;25(1):412. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21516-x.
To investigate the characteristics and interrelationships between knowledge, preventive practice, and information sources of infectious diseases among Chinese children.
This study used data collected from the baseline survey of a China national multi-centered cluster-randomized controlled trial in 2013. A total of 30,287 children completed a questionnaire package that included measures for knowledge, preventive practice and information sources related to infectious diseases.
The mean scores of knowledge and prevention practices of infectious diseases were 2.35 and 12.16, respectively. Children received information about infectious diseases primarily through school, other individuals, and electronic media. Knowledge and practices among children differed significantly across gender, age, single-child, living with parents or not, residence(urban/rural), regions, parental age and parents' education levels. Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that higher levels of knowledge(b = 0.102), and receiving information through schools(b = 0.054), electronic media(b = 0.016), and paper media(b = 0.054) were significantly associated with better preventive practice.
Children's knowledge and various sources of access to information significantly predicted the prevention practice score. It might add value to future interventions and policy-making in promoting preventive measures for infectious diseases.
调查中国儿童传染病知识、预防行为及信息来源的特点和相互关系。
本研究采用2013年一项中国全国多中心整群随机对照试验基线调查收集的数据。共有30287名儿童完成了一套问卷，其中包括传染病知识、预防行为及信息来源的相关测量指标。
传染病知识和预防行为的平均得分分别为2.35和12.16。儿童主要通过学校、他人及电子媒体获取传染病信息。儿童的知识和行为在性别、年龄、是否为独生子女、是否与父母同住、居住地（城市/农村）、地区、父母年龄及父母教育水平方面存在显著差异。多变量线性回归分析显示，较高的知识水平（b = 0.102），以及通过学校（b = 0.054）、电子媒体（b = 0.016）和纸质媒体（b = 0.054）获取信息与更好的预防行为显著相关。
儿童的知识及各种信息获取来源显著预测了预防行为得分。这可能为未来促进传染病预防措施的干预和政策制定增添价值。
