Abstract: Objective To understand the channel of acquiring TB knowledge about TB among middle school students in Shenzhen City. Methods This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 16174 students from 24 middle schools in Shenzhen City were selected by stratified random cluster sampling method. Questionnaire survey was administered to all students enrolled to inquiry their channels of acquiring TB knowledge. There are five options in this questionnaire, namely, school education, media campaigns, hospital advocacy, extra-curricular reading and others.  Results School education, media campaigns and other are first three channels in TB knowledge acquisition. Education, gender, age, length of daily study duration, sleep duration, exercise duration, whether has study pressure and the family income were the factors affecting the channels of TB knowledge acquisition. Conclusion Health education in schools should focus on these features and relevant policy measures should be developed.

Key words: tuberculosis/prevention and control, health education, students, Shenzhen city