Abstract: Objective  To understand the status of awareness of TB knowledge and its influence factors, and to provide a reference for floating population health education and health promotion.   Methods  Four hundred and forty-seven floating people were selected through the cluster random sampling method, and they were administered to face-to-face questionnaire survey. Four hundred valid questionnaires were collected eventually, and the effective rate is 89.5%(400/447). The Epidata 3.1 software was used to set up the database and double entry of the data, Excel 2003 and SPSS 13.0 were used for data analysis.   Results  The overall awareness rate to core information in all respondents is 57.1 % (1141/2000), 76.9 %(684/890) in male and 41.2 %(457/1110) in female respectively. This rate is significantly higher in male than in female（χ²=256.67，P＜0.01）. In terms of age-specific TB awareness rate, highest rate is 69.8 %(199/285) in 30- age group, followed by 64.0%(285/445) in 40-50 age group. The lowest rate is 51.7%(657/1270) in 18- age group. The difference is statistically significant（χ²=42.60，P＜0.01）. Regarding the proportion of respondents by age, the highest proportion is 18- age group, accounting for 63.5%(254/400)of all the respondents. The awareness rate is 59.4 %(692/1165) in migrant workers who have been worked for ≥2 years in surveyed locations, higher than those worked for <2 years which is 53.8%(449/835)（χ²=6.28，P<0.05）. In 5 core information, one specified as “cough, expectoration more than 2 weeks, or blood stained sputum, should be suspected of suffering from TB” has the lowest awareness rate, 36.0%(144/400) only. 67.5%(239/354) of respondents acquired TB knowledge by TV, 46.6%(165/354) were told by others.   Conclusion  The awareness rate of TB knowledge in the floating people is still low in Shandong province. We should strengthen TB health education for new generation of floating population and new migrant workers, especially focusing on the dissemination of important core information.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary/prevention and control, Health education, Questionnaives, Shandong province