Investigation And Intervention Studies Of Medical College Student Health Knowledge And Health Behavior

Objective:To know about the level of health knowledge, health behaviors and influential factors among medical students, to compare the impacts of passive, active and mixed intervention on health knowledge and behaviors among them, to provide reference for better college medical education..Methods:The study population were all2012graduates of a medical university; designed "Health Knowledge and Health Behaviors Survey for College Students" with a stratified random sampling,500students were randomly selected for the survey. Among them, the freshmen majoring in Preventive Medicine were randomly divided into passive, active, mixed intervention groups, and also control group according to their class, to conduct6months health education intervention trial, completed the questionnaire and the data should be analyzed statistically with SPSS18.0.Results:The average health total score of the medical university students was64.33, in which, the average score of health knowledge was34.94, of health behaviors was29.39; the score of health behaviors was significantly lower than that of health knowledge (P<0.05), they were positively related (r=0.644, P<0.05); gender differences were existed in health knowledge (P<0.05), while differences were in gender, grade, family education, and origin for health behaviors (P<0.05). The implementation of health intervention obviously improved health knowledge and behaviors. The impacts of different intervention were:mixed intervention was better than the other two, whose score of health knowledge was83.58±14.97; no significant difference between active and passive intervention, scoring72.75±14.21and72.34±15.27, respectively; but the effect of the two was better than control group, whose score of health knowledge was only63.25±16.78. Intervention education had a great effect on diet and nutrition, habits, and intentional/unintentional injury (P value was0.006,0.015and0.007, respectively), while no obvious effect on material/spirit addiction, mental health, disease association, and sexual knowledge/attitude(P value was0.211,0.404,0.988and0.357, respectively); diet and nutrition(77.8%), mental health(57.7%), and habits(56.4%) were the health knowledge the student would be most willing to acquire. The best ways to acquire health knowledge that the students like most were:lecture (43.6%) and new media (36.9%), health counseling (27.5%) and health games (26.8%) in the second place. It was considered that active education (76%) had a better effect than that of passive education.Conclusion:Health knowledge of medical students still needed to be improved, health habits were not optimistic, intervention education could promote health knowledge and behaviors, especially active intervention combined with traditional passive intervention, which was mixed intervention had significant effect, which mean a lot to college health education.