Investigation on health education status of the students of primary 5 in rural areas of 6 provinces in China

Objective To investigate the health education status of the students of primary 5 in rural areas of 6 provinces,and to provide basis for school health education in rural areas.Methods Using multi-stage stratified random cluster sampling,a questionnaire survey was conducted among the students of primary 5 at 72 primary schools in rural areas of 6 provinces to collect the status of health education.Results The rate of health education course offering was 84.8%.The rate of schools that had examination and evaluation to health education courses was 52.0%.The awareness rates of health knowledge and infectious diseases were 57.3% and 67.8%,respectively,and the forming rate of health behavior was 61.2%.The main influencing factors of health knowledge,infectious knowledge and health behaviors about the students of primary 5 in rural areas were whether offering health education course or not and whether giving final examination or not.Besides,the economic level was the main influencing factor of infectious diseases and the gender was the main influencing factor of health behaviors.Conclusion The rates of health knowledge and behavior about the students of primary 5 in rural areas need to be enhanced further.Implementing health education course can improve the students' health knowledge level,and more pertinent and effective intervening measures should be adopted to change behaviors.