Research Of Knowledge Attitude And Practice About Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among University Students In Qingdao

Objective To investigate the knowledge attitude and practice about pulmonary tuberculosis among university students in Qingdao and analyze the influence factors about it, in order to provide an objective evidence for tuberculosis health education to university students.Methods1070university students in Qingdao were investigated by convenient sampling with a self-designed questionnaire. The questionnaire content included general data, knowledge,attitude and practice about pulmonary tuberculosis. The data was analyzed by SPSS17.0.Results (1) The average score of knowledge was4.09±1.59, total awareness rate of pulmonary tuberculosis knowledge was68.2%, the awareness rate of single tuberculosis knowledge was53.7-85.5%, the awareness rate of the treatment agency was the highest(85.5%), and the awareness rate of the free police was the lowest(53.7%).(2) The average score of attitude was43.96±4.03, and the attitude holding rate was54.6-96.5%.(3) The average score of behavior was4.20±0.99, and the behavior holding rate was65.1-94.5%, the behavior holding rate of getting and disseminating the tuberculosis knowledge were low (77.9%and65.1%).(4) There was significant difference of the total score among groups in different majors, education level of parents, family economy, tuberculosis health education (F=17.72, H=7.33-15.97,t=3.66,P<0.05).There was no significant difference of the total score among groups of different gender and birth places (Z=0.84,1.55,P>0.05).By non-conditional logistic regression analysis, the total score of liberal art and science students was lower than it of medical students and the score of students who had not received tuberculosis health education was lower than the score of students who had received tuberculosis health education.Conclusion Students awareness of pulmonary tuberculosis was not comprehensive, it needs the health education, especially to disseminate the knowledge of the free police of pulmonary tuberculosis.The attitude was better, but there was still social discrimination to the pulmonary tuberculosis and it should be improved.There was a certain lack in the aspect of the behavior and it needs to strengthen the healthy behavior and it also needs to encourage the students to take the initiative to spread the tuberculosis knowledge. There were some differences in knowledge attitude and practice level among the students. It needs to strengthen tuberculosis health education targetedly in order to achieve the purpose of prevent the outbreak of tuberculosis in university ultimately.