Analysis Of Awareness Status And Influential Factors Of Tuberculosis Among The Residents Of Rural Area In Fuzhou

Agriculture is the foundation of social development, and the residents of ruralarea are the mainstay of agriculture production, their physical and mental health is animportant precondition of agriculture production and it will effect rural socialdevelopment and agricultural extension directly. The main purpose for this paper byinvestigation is to clarify the knowledge, attitude and practice about tuberculosis (TB)for the residents of rural area in Fuzhou and analyse the influencing factor of it.Provide reasonable suggestions for improving the health of residents of rural area.Methods a face to face questionnaire survey was conducted stratified randomsampling among resident population who fit this investigation by trainedinvestigator. Collected the data of demography characters, the knowledge, attitudeand practice about TB for the residents of rural area and analyzed it by SPSS.The results were showed that：(1) The total awareness rate about TB amongrespondents was70.43%, and male group was higher than female group(X~2=19.244，P<0.001), youth group and middle-aged group were higher thanolder-aged group (X~2=293.123，P<0.001), administrative personnel group, technicalpersonnel group and students group were higher than farmers and unemployed(X~2=70.537，P<0.001) group, the rate of higher level of earnings and educationalachievement personnel is higher.(X~2=140.043，P<0.001; X~2=300.659，P<0.001).(2)The68.3%of respondents held the correct attitude about TB, but there is still havegreat prejudice against TB patients.(3) The practice for preventing and curingtuberculosis is poor, it only has less than one-third of respondents had the correctpractice about TB.(4) The knowledge, attitude and practice about tuberculosis (TB)for the residents of rural area in Fuzhou is difference.(5) There is78.59%ofrespondents has correct knowledge held the correct attitude about TB (X~2=155.268，P<0.001), but there is only26.11%of incorrect knowledge personnel did. There are40.81%of respondents has correct knowledge had understood the knowledgeabout TB activily (X~2=84.561，P<0.001), but there is only4.93%of the incorrect knowledge personnel did. There is33.50%of respondents has correct knowledgehad told their understanding about TB to others (X~2=65.287，P<0.001), but there isonly4.93%of incorrect knowledge personnel did. There is42.46%of respondentshas correct attitude had understood the knowledge about TB activily (X~2=86.778，P<0.001), and there is only7.23%of incorrect attitude personnel did. There is37.26%of respondents has correct attitude had told their understanding about TB toothers (X~2=98.152，P<0.001), but there is only2.13%of incorrect attitude personneldid.(6) The four-quadrant analysis showed that proportion of people located inquadrant Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ was21.17,7.50%,26.33%and45.00%respectively.(7)The people got the knowledge about TB mainly by TV (70.17%) and the newspaper(62.83%), and the most respondents (37.67%) were prefer to accept thepicture-based promotional materials.This research showed that the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) level of TBamong the rural residents in Fuzhou was poor, especially in practice. The initiative ofdissemination of knowledge about TB in crowd was not optimistic. The level ofKAP about TB for the youth group and middle-aged group, higher level of earningsand educational achievement personnel group and administrator, technician, studentgroups were obviously higher than older-aged group, lower level of earnings andeducational achievement personnel group, famers and unemployed group. KAP is acausal chain. Knowledge plays a guide role on attitude, the correct knowledge is abasis of the health attitude and the health attitude is the motive power for changingbehavior. The correct knowledge personnel held better attitude about TB and thecorrect knowledge or attitude personnel had the better practice about TB among theresidents of rural area in Fuzhou.(Rural community will become the crucial areasfor TB health education in the future. We should offer them health-education aboutTB by different ways and contents so as to raise the residents’ KAP awareness levelfor preventing and controlling TB.