Knowledge and behavior regarding dengue fever prevention and control and the influencing factors among college students and faculty in Guangzhou City
Objective To investigate the knowledge and preventive behaviors regarding dengue fever prevention and control as well as the influencing factors among college students and faculty in Guangzhou City,China,so as to provide scientific evidence for effective implementation of dengue fever prevention and control measures in higher-education institutions.Methods The multi-stage convenience sampling method was adopted to select 5 527 students and 1 470 faculty members from 19 higher-education institutions in Guangzhou for an anonymous self-administered electronic questionnaire survey.SPSS 22.0 software was used for descriptive and statistical analyses.The Chi-square test was used to compare rates and proportions.The logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the factors affecting dengue fever prevention and control knowledge awareness and behavior practice.Results The overall awareness rate of dengue fever prevention and control knowledge among college students and faculty in Guangzhou was 53.14％(students,47.82％;faculty,73.13％).The overall practice rate of dengue fever prevention behaviors was 64.47％(students,62.55％;faculty,71.70％).According to the multivariate logistic regression analysis,among the surveyed students,age,major,and hometown were influencing factors for the awareness of dengue fever prevention and control knowledge,and sex,hometown,grade,and knowledge of dengue fever prevention and control were found to influence the practice of preventive behaviors;among the surveyed faculty members,sex and job position were factors affecting dengue fever knowledge awareness,and knowledge of dengue fever prevention and control,years of work experience,and job position were factors influencing the practice of preventive behaviors.Conclusions Dengue fever prevention and control knowledge awareness rate and preventive behavior practice rate among college students and faculty in Guangzhou are relatively low.Higher-education schools should strengthen related health education and health promotion activities for students and faculty,and foster the orderly implementation of dengue fever prevention and control measures.
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