[The study on pulmonary tuberculosis knowledges and its influencing factors among middle school students of Three-Gorges Reservoir in Chongqing].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the pulmonary tuberculosis knowledge and its influencing factors among middle school students of Three-Gorges Reservoir poverty county in Chongqing, in order to provide basis for health education of tuberculosis knowledges.


METHODS
1639 middle school students were randomly collected and surveyed by self-developed questionnaire, which mainly concerned about tuberculosis relevant knowledge. Chi2 test and logistic stepwise regression analysis were utilized to study the major factors affecting pulmonary tuberculosis knowledge of middle school students.


RESULTS
Overall awareness rates on tuberculosis relevant knowledge of Middle school students in the reservoir area were 31.1%. Average scores of tuberculosis relevant knowledge were 5.95 +/- 3.47. Multivariate non-conditional logistic regression analysis identified that 6 factors had significant influence on score of knowledge part (P < 0.05), including grade, gender, home location, education level of father, family tuberculosis history, and family economic status. The students' knowledge were mainly learned from broadcasting, TV programs (69.4%), books, magazines, newspapers (56.9%), and tuberculosis preventive education booklet or leaflets (44.7%).


CONCLUSIONS
The key steps of promoting middle school students' overall awareness rate on tuberculosis relevant knowledge should include enhancement of relevant health education, the improvement of parental educational level, and the development of economy.
Wang
Hong
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Department of Maternal Care & Child and Adolescents Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China. wangh111111@yahoo.com.cn
Huang
Ruirui
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Zhao
Yong
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Liu
Xiaoxue
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D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000517:prevention & control*