| Title: |
Knowledge, practice, and information sources regarding infectious diseases among Chinese children and adolescents: a National-Level cross-sectional study |
| Authors: |
Zeng, Y; Li, F; Liang, W; Liu, Y; Zou, Z; Baker, JS; Dong, Y; Ma, J; Hu, J; Yang, Y; Dong, B |
| Publisher Information: |
BMC |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
| Subject Terms: |
Epidemiology; Health services and systems; Public health |
| Description: |
Objective To investigate the characteristics and interrelationships between knowledge, preventive practice, and information sources of infectious diseases among Chinese children. Methods This study used data collected from the baseline survey of a China national multi-centered cluster-randomized controlled trial in 2013. A total of 30,287 children completed a questionnaire package that included measures for knowledge, preventive practice and information sources related to infectious diseases. Results The mean scores of knowledge and prevention practices of infectious diseases were 2.35 and 12.16, respectively. Children received information about infectious diseases primarily through school, other individuals, and electronic media. Knowledge and practices among children differed significantly across gender, age, single-child, living with parents or not, residence(urban/rural), regions, parental age and parents’ education levels. Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that higher levels of knowledge(b = 0.102), and receiving information through schools(b = 0.054), electronic media(b = 0.016), and paper media(b = 0.054) were significantly associated with better preventive practice. Conclusions Children’s knowledge and various sources of access to information significantly predicted the prevention practice score. It might add value to future interventions and policy-making in promoting preventive measures for infectious diseases. ; Full Text |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
BMC Public Health; Zeng, Y; Li, F; Liang, W; Liu, Y; Zou, Z; Baker, JS; Dong, Y; Ma, J; Hu, J; Yang, Y; Dong, B, Knowledge, practice, and information sources regarding infectious diseases among Chinese children and adolescents: a National-Level cross-sectional study, BMC Public Health, 2025, 25, pp. 412; https://hdl.handle.net/10072/437320 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12889-025-21516-x |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10072/437320; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21516-x |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; © The Author(s) 2025. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. ; open access |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.5B03788 |
| Database: |
BASE |