title: Factors Affecting Parent's Perception on Air Quality-From the Individual to the Community Level.
abstract: The perception of air quality significantly affects the acceptance of the public of the government's environmental policies. The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between the perception of the air quality of parents and scientific monitoring data and to analyze the factors that affect parents' perceptions. Scientific data of air quality were obtained from Wuhan's environmental condition reports. One thousand parents were investigated for their knowledge and perception of air quality. Scientific data show that the air quality of Wuhan follows an improving trend in general, while most participants believed that the air quality of Wuhan has deteriorated, which indicates a significant difference between public perception and reality. On the individual level, respondents with an age of 40 or above (40 or above: OR = 3.252; 95% CI: 1.170-9.040), a higher educational level (college and above: OR = 7.598; 95% CI: 2.244-25.732) or children with poor healthy conditions (poor: OR = 6.864; 95% CI: 2.212-21.302) have much more negative perception of air quality. On the community level, industrial facilities, vehicles and city construction have major effects on parents' perception of air quality. Our investigation provides baseline information for environmental policy researchers and makers regarding the public's perception and expectation of air quality and the benefits to the environmental policy completing and enforcing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. sylvia-guo@foxmail.com.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. sylvia-guo@foxmail.com.
authors.forename: Yulin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014283050041@whu.edu.cn.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014283050041@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Fengfeng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. yuanan@hawaii.edu.|Environmental Health Laboratory, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, 1960 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. yuanan@hawaii.edu.
authors.forename: Yuanan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. zfmao@126.com.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. zfmao@126.com.
authors.forename: Zongfu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.affiliation: International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, Wuhan Foreign Languages School, Wan Song Yuan Road, Wuhan 430022, China. hansonlu_hl@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hanson
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Environmental Health Laboratory, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, 1960 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. yywu@hawaii.edu.
authors.forename: Yanyan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014203050033@whu.edu.cn.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014203050033@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yuanyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014203050031@whu.edu.cn.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2014203050031@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lichen
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. roselewis@sina.com.
authors.forename: Yisi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. melodyren@126.com.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. 2012302170047@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. aries_c_7@163.com.
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. xianghao@whu.edu.cn.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, 115# Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, China. xianghao@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000397:Air Pollution; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D058735:Environmental Policy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010465:Perception; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: air quality; community level; factors; individual level; perceived