title: [A knowledge, attitude and practice survey on SARS in a rural area].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To learn the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of rural people towards Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and to quickly provide the informations to decision-making department.
  
  
  METHODS
  The observation, interview via telephone, personal in-depth interview and structured questionnaire methods were conducted to survey the KAP level about SARS. From May 5th to 7th in 2003, 118 people in Pinggu County, Beijing China were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  97.7% of them knew SARS was one infectious disease, 73.0% of them knew it spread via saliva, 94.4% of them knew fever was the early symptom, 86.8% of them thought the best prevalent method was opening the windows and respiring fresh air, 90.0% of them thought it could be cured. 92.4% of people received all above knowledge about SARS via television.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was the condition to avoid the SARS to diffuse and extend in the rural area as Pinggu.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100083, China. ysgwxl@public.bta.net.cn
authors.forename: Xiaoli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jingxu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: You
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D012423:Rural Health; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission