Abstract:

Objective To understand the current status of public awareness in key messages of tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control in Beijing, so as to provide direction and focus to further promote health education on TB.Methods The multi-stage stratified clustered random sampling method was applied to select 17274 residents who were 15 years old and above in January to October 2015 among all communities and townships of 16 districts in Beijing. All of the subjects were interviewed face-to-face with the standard questionnaire designed by the expert group of the Awareness Survey through literature search and expert consultation. A total of 16519 valid questionnaires were received and the effective rate was 95.6%. The interview was carried out to take the basic demographic characteristics, the awareness rate of TB key message and the main channel for the subjects to get TB knowledge and information. A database was set up, and then the overall awareness rate of TB key messages was calculated. The way and the will of obtaining the knowledge were analyzed.Results The overall awareness rate of key messages on TB prevention and control among surveyed people was 75.0% (61944/82595), and that of women (75.7%, 37413/49445) was higher than that of men (74.0%, 24531/33150)(χ ²=29.37, P<0.01). The awareness of population of Beijing registered residence (76.0%, 49446/65050) was significantly higher than that of non-household population (71.2%, 12498/17545) (χ ²=168.25, P<0.01). The awareness rate of the age group 30-44 (76.4%, 24005/31435) was higher than other age groups. In this study, only a few subjects (26.1%, 4308/16519) knew all the five key messages. The main channels for the subjects to get TB knowledge and information were TV (62.4%, 10303/16519) and health lectures (44.9%, 7413/16519), and the materials which contained pictures and texts were the most popular form (33.6%, 5543/16519). Conclusion The awareness rate on TB key know-ledge of the public in Beijing is lower than the requirement of the National TB Control Programme. For the important population, TB control health education activities with popular form and materials should be applied to further promote the awareness on TB.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Health knowledge,attitudes,practice, Questionnaires survey, Data interpretation,statistical, Beijing