Abstract: Objective  To explore college students’ awareness rate of tuberculosis, attitudes towards tuberculosis patients and their ways for obtaining tuberculosis knowledge in Guangzhou city, in order to provide references for carrying out more effective health education on TB control.   Methods  Forty-seven classes from 10 universities were selected by stratified cluster random sampling, and a questionnaire of TB knowledge was made by ourselves. 1534 questionnaires were eligible in all 1588 subjects. Chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were used to analyze statistically. Results  1534 eligible questionnaires were finally included into the research. The ge-neral awareness rate of key information on TB control is 62.9%（4824/7670） in college students. However, awareness rate about free policy was only 27.1%（416/1534）, and about all key information was only 13.4%（206/1534）. Faced to tuberculosis patients, about 22.9%（351/1534）college students had a estranged attitude. The awareness rate was closely related to gender（male 59.3%，2321/3915; female 66.3%,2490/3755；χ²=38.73，P<0.001）, source place（urban 63.8%，2544/3985; rural 61.5%,2265/3685；χ²=5.95，P=0.015）, parents’ vocation（agrarian or unemployed 59.8%，1648/2755; non-agrarian 63.8%,3138/4915；χ²=9.02，P=0.003） and friends’ history of TB（yes 69.9%，619/885; no 61.7%, 4189/6785；χ²=20.16，P<0.001） in the college students. Meanwhile, grade（low grade 21.4%，294/1373；high grade 35.4%,57/161；Waldχ²=15.83，P<0.001）, source place（urban 26.9%，214/797; rural 18.6%,137/737；Waldχ²=17.96，P<0.001） and friends’ history of TB（yes 37.3%，66/177; no 21.0%,285/1357;Waldχ²=19.74，P<0.001） were significantly associated with attitudes towards tuberculosis patients. Their OR values（95%CI values）are 2.07（1.45-2.96）,0.58（0.46-0.75）and 0.46（0.33-0.65）respectively.  Conclusion  The awareness rate of TB knowledge in college students is still low. To strengthen college students’ knowledge on preventing and controlling tuberculosis, the school should carry out the pertinent propaganda and education, cooperating with sectors of the community. Only in this way, it will be conducive to the prevention and treatment on tuberculosis in the whole society.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary/prevention &, control, Awareness, Health education, Students, Questionnaires, Guangzhou city