title: [Behaviours related to infectious disease and family factors in primary and middle school students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the behaviors related to infectious disease and family factors in primary and middle school students, and to provide evidence for improving behaviors related to infectious disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 8465 students were randomly surveyed by a standard questionnaire of behaviors related to infectious disease. Chi-square test was used to analyze the influential factors for behaviors related to infectious disease, and non conditional logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the multiple factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The total formation rate of behaviors related to infectious disease was 66.4%. The rates for primary and middle school students were 69.4% and 62.8% respectively, with significant difference (P<0.05). There were significant differences in the following behaviors, such as washing hands before eating food, rarely buying snacks on outside stalls, informing teachers when showing infectious disease symptoms (all P<0.05), the degree for such behaviors in primary school students was higher than that in middle school students. There were also significant differences in the following behaviors, such as washing hands after using the toilet, blocking with a handkerchief, wiping while coughing and sneezing (all P<0.05), the degree for such behaviors in middle school students was higher than that in primary school students. Non conditional logistic regression analysis showed that the behaviors related to infectious disease in primary and middle school students were associated with parents' education degree, mother's occupation and living status with parents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Behaviors related to infectious disease in primary and middle school students need to be improved, and the formation of these behaviors may be related to many family factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Jiayou
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Huixia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Ningxiang County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410600, China.
authors.forename: Xiongwei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Ningxiang County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410600, China.
authors.forename: Haixiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires