Abstract: Objective  To understand the health education for TB cases of floating population in Guangzhou city, and provide scientific basis for the development of relative strategies. Methods A total of 1002 TB cases were surveyed by questionnaire and received 972 valid questionnaires. We analyzed the length of time TB cases living in Guangzhou, and TB knowledge they have received and ways of TB message dissemination.  Results  The length of time staying in Guangzhou and the health education are closely related. For TB cases living than 2 years have more chance to get TB knowledge health education than the TB cases living between 3 months to 2 years and there was significant difference between 2 groups (99.3%(685/690),92.7%(101/109), χ²=25.73,P<0.01). For patients living between 3 months to 2 years have more chances than those living less than 3 months and there was significant difference between 2 groups (92.7%(101/109)，56.6%（98/173）, χ²=41.76,P<0.01). The study showed only a few TB cases knew the free TB treatment policy. The proportion（70.5%，623/884） lowered than the proportion of patients who have received TB basic knowledge（100.0%，884/884）, TB prevention and control know-ledge（99.8%，882/884）and TB treatment knowledge（98.8%，873/884）29.5%, 29.3% and 28.3% respectively. 53.8%（476/884） TB cases received the TB health education from the doctors and 12.1%（107/884） cases knew TB knowledge by health education materials. The radio and television programs, wall advertising, school education, picture poster and others were 10.9%(96/884), 8.0%(71/884), 6.2%(55/884), 5.1%(45/884) and 3.8%(34/884) respectively. Conclusion  We should pay attention to the health education methods and health education effects for TB patients in floating population. Especially we should focus on patients staying short, and provide more health education for the free policies in order to achieve good effects.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary/prevention &, control, Health education, Residential mobility, Guangzhou city