Knowledge, Demand and Habits Towards Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) of College Students: Cross-Sectional Survey Study of Southwest China

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210407.068How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Knowledge, Demand, Habits, College Students, COVID-19

Abstract

Purpose: To determine the knowledge, information acquisition channels, and information topics of college students during the COVID-19 epidemic, and to provide decision makers with empirical data to help formulate future health strategies and health education strategies. Methods: Using online surveys, a total of 3059 people were surveyed among college students in three provinces in southwestern China. SPSS was used for data analysis. Results: 56.16% of college students’COVID-19 knowledge scores were good or above. During the epidemic, college students obtained the most information about COVID-19 through TV (86.6%) and the Internet (79.4%), and more than 80% of students were susceptible to COVID-19. All kinds of related knowledge are hoped to be further understood. Gender, grade, major, current residence, information needs, information acquisition channels, and information attention preferences will all affect the level of COVID-19 knowledge of college students. Conclusion: It is recommended that a variety of channels should be adopted more accurately, in accordance with the behavior and demand characteristics of different populations, and a variety of publicity methods should be used to timely and efficiently transmit disease-related information to the public, and guide the public to respond more actively to disease prevention and control. Combination of prevention and control methods, and detailed disease prevention and control content.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Luo Lin
AU  - Song Naiqing
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/08
TI  - Knowledge, Demand and Habits Towards Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) of College Students: Cross-Sectional Survey Study of Southwest China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 341
EP  - 351
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.068
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.068
ID  - Lin2021
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